I intend to make abstract paintings in a developing response to Rome as a layered urban environment, from ancient classicism to contemporary billboards, outdoor cinema, and graffiti. Painting is cumulatively a ruminative dialogue with its own history, a forceful visual and material address toward the present and a speculation about its own future. My works are abstract distillations of painting’s geometric elements, urban architecture and sign space, and painting’s memory of its own historical trajectory. I want to transplant this semiotic alchemy to Rome, the most historically dense great European city and the essential destination for painters through the Baroque and Neoclassical epochs. I am fascinated by the potential spectacle of Rome’s collision with modernity, which sends out both ephemeral and resonant recombinations of form and design. I expect my own painting process will be illuminated in this environment.