N.052 - Tuffarsi

What makes your heart race faster? The last seconds before the jump, or the ones you count as you fall? One. Long ago, there was a summer just like the one that had passed, and just like the one that would come. Two. We searched for shade among the rocks; there were thistles, and the cliffs. Three. The season ends, and stray dogs make their way back up the paths. They take different roads, and will never see each other again. Four. There is a moment between the certainty that you will jump, and the certainty that you never will, and that is the moment when it’s easiest to leap. The illustration depicts a dive from Palazzo degli Spiriti, with blues for the water, browns for the rock, hints of violet, and white clouds above. A woman watches from the shore, while one diver is mid-air and another is just about to jump.