Amore e Roma – A Practice Piece Born from a Found Story

This artwork was created as part of an assignment at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, where we were asked to build a piece starting from an object found on the street. During a trip to Rome, I discovered two discarded entry tickets near the Colosseum, one belonging to a man, the other to a woman. Inspired by this, I imagined a love story between these two strangers and developed a fictional newspaper front page titled "Amore e Roma" that blends romance, history, and design.

The piece includes three main sections: an article questioning whether Rome is the true "city of love," a typographic composition where the text itself forms an image of the Colosseum (using a technique similar to ASCII art or text-shaping), and a fictional story of “Clara and Paul,” two travelers who fall in love while exploring Rome. The real tickets are scanned and embedded, grounding the story in reality. Through this, the work explores how history and human connection intertwine, how even the smallest found object can hold echoes of love, memory, and possibility.