Perhaps as a way of by-passing thinking about the vast scale ever present in Rome, I was often drawn to more esoteric moments; the games on the side of the baths at Caracalla, the depictions of boats and beer kegs on Santa Maria in Trastevere, the monks games etched into the stone at Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati, the working drawings on the plaster work at the Pallazo Farnese, the depiction of a bread oven on the Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker, the graffiti at Pompeii. All of which crept into the paintings and sculptures one way or another.  

— Gabriel Hartley