This series of temporary site installations depicts the overlay and extension of three structural lines implicit in the landscape of the American Academy in Rome. These lines act to describe the processes inherent in the site through uninterrupted growth of plants and sculptural framing of seen and unseen existing conditions. One line extends the organizational axis of the building and the other traces the path of the Trajanic aqueduct that passes 20’ below the ground. The third line extends remnants of a former road through garden connecting and further defining existing spaces.
The materials are of the site: unleashed growth of plants, unearthed shards, glass and brick and tufa stone blocks that are formed from the local bedrock. This tufa is emblematic of the dynamic nature of the site's topography. Compressed volcanic mud flows hardened to moisture laden stone. Plastic and malleable upon excavation, tufa cures to hard and permanent material. The material of the Roman city walls and aqueducts in antiquity and the equivalent to concrete block today, tufa serves as the foundation and framework for an investigation into the poetic qualities of natural process within an archaeological and architectural cultural context.