Juliet's Balcony

A small stone balcony above a narrow courtyard off Via Cappello, in the part of old Verona that once belonged to the Cappello family, the name Shakespeare adapted to Capulet. The balcony itself is a twentieth-century addition, set into a thirteenth-century wall. A bronze Juliet stands below. The walls of the entry passage carry letters and notes, fixed and unfixed. The Club di Giulietta still answers the letters that arrive addressed to her. People come for the story; the story keeps gathering around the stone.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.