Rome was overwhelming. Ludovica Albertoni – the ‘installation’ by Bernini, was top of my list influentially, it was under restoration but my begging and explanation of my reason for being in Rome allowed me a brief private visit. I then found a book which had images of a clay maquette photographed from above, which made it look like there were two figures in the bed... But influences come from unexpected sources, what one starts noticing and becoming fascinated by is not predictable. Spatial dissonance, and oddities of scale, from tiny Christs in St Jerome paintings, huge Andromeda, to the houses carried as gifts for the Madonna and the Piranesi keyhole.  Roman empresses’ hairdos. An out of timescale, slippery, oily Madonna by an unknown Sienese painter.

— Fiona MacDonald