My work is process oriented and research based. During my residency I plan to develop an interdisciplinary body of work that addresses a defining autobiographical incident that took place in Italy. In July of 1991, while touring with a Cuban experimental theater group, I defected. This body of work will evolve around a video about this escaping experience. I intend to shoot this video with the help of local citizens and some of the individuals who helped me at that time. I also plan to revisit and develop pieces at the sites that served as a backdrop for this life-changing experience: Rome, Sperlonga, and Campagna. I see these pieces as interactions with those locations, its citizens, and the individuals that played key rolls in that defining moment. The proposed project is a reflective journey since almost twenty years has already past.