LAST EDITED ON 26-Sep-00 AT 02:19 PM (GMT)

>I feel honored that I have
>the pleasure of posting the
>inaugural message in this forum.
>This is going to be
>a great forum and site
>for everything fresco so lets
>start posting guys and gals.

Hi John! Thank You for starting up the first discussion in the Cafe al Fresco. We had a little chat and you told me that you followed the link from DCScripts.com. I assume that you have general (not professional) interest in fresco art. It is important for me to know how did you learn about the fresco?

Not many people have seen this PBS documentary about Mark Balma even less would know about the website . I have been on-line with my site for about 4 years and watched the interest in fresco climbing up from 1-12 visitors a week to up to 100 unique visitors to the main page at some days, with 45,000 overall hits last month. Yes, site became bigger (over 350 pages) and more interesting, but this would mean nothing if there will be no interest in fresco itself.

I am very interested to learn what do you think about fresco and how much do people in your community (cant find a better word) know about fresco, as well as what place does art (in general) have in their life?

I know this is a "bold" question, but it is normal and essential for the fresco painter. All of us (fresco artists and enthusiasts) had come to fresco as to a conclusion in the search for the ultimate challenge in art, so as did the artists and their patrons before us in over 30,000 years of the fresco history. Did you follow the same path?

You might say "Wow! all I did is posted a link!", but at times when a lot of people having difficulty remembering which town they live in (see "Jay walk" with J. Leno) - you know too much!

I would love to see the site you are building, where is the link?

Ilia:9