The Leaning Tower of Pisa and me

Inspired by the leaning tower: Cornelia Parker’s installation of Pisa mud.

I’d been visiting friends in Pisa since the 1980s, and then I had a fling with an Italian architect who lived in Pisa, who introduced me to the engineers working to stabilise the leaning tower.

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