Summers and Ogle are developing a lyric reference guide to fish and fish-like creatures in Rome. Throughout their fellowship they have delighted in a practice of “going fishing,” that is: tracking marine organisms in imagery found in fountains, mosaics, sculptures, frescoes, and tombs around the city. The studio is their laboratory for the project. Creative renderings of their examination — replicas of ancient red-figure fish plates, a model of the Pantheon during the historic 1598 flood, etc. — are displayed as records of a practice which finds energy in the overlap of scientific and artistic inquiry. A wall of photographs and notes tracks the collaborators’ conversation, one of emergent hypotheses, invented taxonomies, and poems pinned alongside scientific data. 

Adam Summers is a scientist raised in a family of artists & writers. Katharine Ogle is a poet raised in a family of scientists.