Paintings made during a working period in Italy, between the marble mountains of Carrara and the old paper workshops in Florence. The paintings were at one point submerged in a water bath where strands of oilpaint attached to the linen, a method inspired by the paper marbling tradition. Figures reemerge as layers peel away, revealing cracks or gaps in the surface. Sometimes, the medium's instability causes paint to drip off, exposing linen or erasing the gesso beneath.