I will construct a new body of work exploring spolia, the digital reproduction of cultural property, and the aesthetics of imperialism during a global shift away from democratic ideals. Spolia are architectural elements taken out of their original context and reused in new construction. I am interested in the ways that Rome has been materially constituted out of the fruits of conquest, selective memories of antiquity, and multiple waves of destruction. I will visit lesser-known monuments incorporating spolia, while seeking out the sites from which such material was removed. I hope to create a new body of sculpture combining traditional materials—plaster, stone, brick bronze, and clay—deployed in novel ways to mirror the acts of seizure, destruction, and recontextualization through new technologies. I’m eager to explore the byproducts of marble quarrying, brick making, and ongoing construction to produce a series of countermonuments dismantling the hegemony of empire.