Bernadette’s diary
recent digital pubblication
on Apple Book
for free reading
under
author: LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette
the first time
I came to Italy
a travelling
notebook I kept
with me
all
along
there were notes and sketches
mainly sketches
but
somehow
it got lost
in Florence
the second time
to Italy
I made another notebook
this time only
in writing
for it was required of me
this workbook
as part of the
scholarship
awarded to me
by the Edinburgh College of Art
and the notebook
was to be kept there
at the College after the trip
the third time
to Italy
I made no travelling
notebook
as
I was no longer
a traveller
I stationed in Florence
as a permanent
student
thirty three years later
I am still in Italy
always
as a student
to note my
daily
life
with sketches
with i movie trailers
with installations
with paintings
with
writing
with
finally
a new travelling
notebook
in the quality
of
a tourist
to see
afresh
these images of
the towns
I know too well
yet not at all
at the same time
what to choose
as the marks that remain
answers
lie
in
the marks
marked
on the
white
pages
with
ink
( notebook with drawings dated 2013, Rome and Florence )