Tin-Clad Doors, Sicily

October 7, 2013

I love Sicily’s wrinkled old tin-clad doors.

Sicilians are giving them the heave-ho.  They rip ’em out, heartlessly, and put in sleek white ones with blank-eyed glass in the center.

I know, I know. I’m probably the only one on the island to treasure these things. It’s just ugly old junk to Sicilians. Out with the old! In with the new! We’re not some kind of backward old island!!! Give us the new!!! Sleek modern designs! Give us shiny chic doors from Milan! Dump these onto the rubbish pile. Out! Out! Out! There was a time, not so long ago, when we were poor. Imagine. So poor that our wooden doors, rotted by a chafing sun, had to be tinned instead of replaced.

After they’ve torn them all out, they’ll ache for them. Just wait.

Tin-faced door in Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

TIn-faced door in Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Tin-clad door in Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Rusty Keyhole on a tin-clad door, copyright Jann Huizenga

Vintage Sicilian tin-clad door, copyright Jann Huizenga

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Voyeuristic Me

February 25, 2012

 I love peeping into windows in Sicily, a tendency some might call nosy, prying, voyeuristic.

Window in Scicli, Sicily, copyright Jann HuizengaIf eyes are the windows to the soul, then windows are the eyes to the soul of a home.

Window with Pillows Hanging Outside in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Bay windows, picture windows, French windows, jalousie windows. They all set me to dreaming.

Pink Curtain in Sicilian Door and Orange Flame Wall in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Of other lives. Secret lives.

Lace with Cherubs in Window in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

I wonder: What sort of people are behind that window? What are they craving, creating, suffering?

Orange Window on Yellow Wall in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

I’d like to try on their story, if only for a little while.

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