2008 Luisa Rabbia, Travels with Isabella. Travel Scrapobooks, 1883-2008, 200826’30″, loop. Music: Fa Ventilato. Courtesy the artist and ISGM, Boston (MA)During her residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, artist Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883. . . . In Travels with Isabella (2008), Rabbia takes and rearranges these archival photographs to create a video of an imaginary landscape, and a running panoramic view of her own journey through these photographs, and through space and time. The artist animates these archival photographs with her own drawings, along with music and other images inspired by her residency. The result is a fantastical narrative that is both contemporary and historical. (Pieranna Cavalchini) Travels With Isabella (1), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×72 in – 61×180 cm. Source material Gardner Museum, Boston Travels With Isabella (2), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×88 in – 61×220 cm. Source material Gardner Museum, Boston Travels With Isabella (3), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×88 in – Cm 61×220 cm.Source material Gardner Museum, Boston Between Earth and Sky, 2008. Glaze on porcelain, 256×177 in – 650×450 cm. Permanent installation, La Collina di Loredana, Pantelleria, Italy DETAIL: Between Earth and Sky, 2008 Untitled, 2008. Colored pencil, on acrylic on papier-mâché 118x20x24 in – 300x50x60 cm DETAIL: Untitled, 2008 Following year, 2009 Previous year, 2007