This is a small collection of pieces created during a period I spent in Rome while waiting for my papers to return to New York, where I had been living since 2005.

With all my friends, life, and work rooted in NYC, being constrained to remain in my birthplace for months felt strange — even disorienting. Rome no longer felt like home, and yet it was the city where I had begun.

This series explores that tension between familiarity and estrangement, between memory and presence. Through each piece, I sought to translate the feeling of being “home sick” in the city of my birth — capturing the quiet unease, the longing, and the subtle dissonance of a place that is both known and strangely foreign.