“Arriving in Rome for the first time, I spent my time walking the city and its periphery, mapping locations from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Ragazzi di vita along the Aniene and Tiber rivers. After Paul Thek, I travelled to Ponza and immediately understood why he chose the island as a retreat from the city.

An encounter with a minor but quite beautiful painting of Tobias and the Angel at Galleria Borghese led me to the Book of Tobit, the reading of which coincided with the discovery of a poorly fish in the school’s courtyard fountain.

Back in Studio 4, I responded to the space itself, partially cleaning the skylights, leaving just an oval-ish shaped lens covered in bird shit and exposing the studio’s wastewater channels; quiet, site-responsive works shaped by encounters in the city and the school.”