PADOVA, Italy - WPMP Artist Ambassador Alberta Vita announces remarkable progress toward the completion of Peace Marker Italy. She reports that the preliminary arrangements with the city of Padova and its mayor Mr. Flavio Zanonato have led to the acceptance of the Peace Marker Italy to reside in the central district of Padova at the Memoria e Luce (Memory and Light) Park.

The news prompted WPMP Beate Eliza Monet, Artist Ambassador to Germany, to travel to Italy in the company of WPMP Correspondent Brent Scheneman to visit with Ambassador Alberta Vita. The two ambassadors took this opportunity to open communication lines between the two nations as members of the WPMP's growing array of points of peace on the planet. It became, as well, the beginning of a friendship between artists representing their nation states. 

What follows is a brief report on the story illustrated with images taken by Brent Scheneman.

Ambassador Alberta Vita pauses along Via Giotti overlooking the future site of Peace Marker Italy. Alberta is widely known for her unique and innovative studio jewelry. Her approach to her art is sculptural with a meticulous penchant for symmetries of elegant and precise intersections of geometry and meaning. She liberates raw gems to yield their beauty while masterfully shielding the gems private mysteries from the possessor of the work. Alberta gives us a new way to experience wearable art. She extends the utility of a ring or a necklace into a narrative of respect for the natural beauty of the earth and an understanding of the elegant way by which we, and everything else, are ultimately connected as one.

Ambassador Alberta Vita chose a unique location for Peace Marker Italy. The marker will be placed directly adjacent to a September 11th memorial designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind. The book-shaped, illuminated structure holds a beam section recovered from one of New York City's twin towers.

Ambassadors Alberta Vita and Beate Eliza Monet pose just to the left of where Peace Marker Italy will be placed. A date, possibly in September, has yet to be scheduled.

The city of Padova has a very rich history of human accomplishment. It was there that the great Galileo Galilei first trained his telescope to the heavens. He set humanity off on a path of discovery of the cosmos that continues to this date as new exoplanets in distant star systems are being discovered.

Memory and Light park is located in a beautiful section of Padova bordered by the waters of the Brenta Fiume.

I would like to express my gratitude to Ambassador Beate Eliza Monet for her dedication to the project, to correspondent Brent Scheneman for the great images and to Ambassador Alberta Vita and David Ferrara for their hospitality extended to the delegation.

Tiité

May 30, 2007