On our second pilgrimage to Burano—Venice’s lace-clad, rainbow-striped jewel—we sought to capture more than postcard perfection. Beneath the iconic façades of magenta, saffron, and emerald, we found a deeper magic: the way the lagoon’s liquid mirror fractured and fused colors into fleeting masterpieces.

In a moment of quiet revelation, Tania envisioned BLEND—a radical departure from literal representation. By isolating fragments of reflected canals and sky, then layering them like translucent silk, we distilled Burano’s essence into liquid abstraction:

A chromatic ballet where peach walls dissolve into teal waters

Time-lapsed poetry, with dawn’s pastels bleeding into dusk’s velvety indigos

Textural alchemy, echoing the island’s twin legacies of lace (delicate as sea foam) and brick (enduring as the fishermen’s stilts of 840 D.C.)

Burano’s hues are no accident. Local lore whispers of a fisherman who resisted a siren’s song, earning his bride a crown woven from wave foam. Her friends’ attempts to replicate it birthed the island’s 500-year lace tradition—just as BLEND reweaves light into new tactile fantasies.