 24_mar_10;35.jpg "Gluttony")
Daily life is entropic. Rituals are constructed to prevent it from turning into chaos. Table manners exist only to prevent the guests from eating each other.
A Locus Amoenus is inserted into Brescia. It mediates between the landscape and the city - nature frames architecture, architecture frames nature. It sections through Brescia, harmonizing the city with its inhabitants.
On this processional trail, Brescia unfolds as the wilderness is approached - a 'view' of its entirety is revealed at its finale.
The ritual is an attempt at an ideal. The garden is a recreation of paradise.