My work explores the interrelated facets between images, objects, and language, making work that mirrors the unpredictability of time and circumstance as a means of shaping interpretation and meaning. More recently the space between the artifact and the image has culminated into a working methodology that I see as a kind of physical journalism—a similar activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and sharing information through storytelling. I will use my time in Rome immersed in research, writing, and exploration by foot of the city. I will document examples of palimpsests forms and ruin structures in Rome, especially new or modified forms and examples of contemporary ruins. I also hope to have access to the works and archives of the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti at the Archive Alighiero Boetti and the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti. I am specifically interested in Boetti’s use of language, printed matter, and rug making in his work. And lastly, I plan to visit the Flower Festival of Genzano Di Roma, known for its yearly ritual of making thematic monumental floral carpets that transforms one of its main streets into a medieval pageant.