Keying into the swift paced physical change and the strain of contemporary cultures to alter, diminish, and manipulate the formal attributes of our cities, the aim of this proposal is to develop an installation practice that strategically utilizes the obscuring of existing space to prompt a productive reworking of material conditions and immaterial effects. Taking inspiration from the nocturnal presence of Rome, I will embrace the capacity of darkness to manipulate and create unique spatial effects, revealing new environments and distorting otherwise familiar ones, affording them unexpected dimensions. The work will benefit from a setting where dominant formal conditions of symmetry, rhythm, and axis are sites for manipulation, and the reworking of existing fragments is an ongoing technique for transforming the city. The outcome will be built installation work that utilizes material distortions, pressing on architecture, and adding formal mutations to the dark landscapes of Rome.