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Contemporary Antiquities is an ongoing project that consists of projected light drawings in spaces of classical architecture, such as the Villa Aurelia and the Dell'Acqua Paola Fountain. The placement of these images in the architectural settings of historic Rome addresses concepts of ideology and notions of presence over centuries. The scaled depiction of women, metaphorically in command of these spaces of antiquity, serves to question the traditional visualizations of women in past eras and in the present. In some cases, the women are both monumentalized, as in historic portraiture, but the artwork also serves to monumentalize the beauty of the everyday. This project includes icons in the symbolic and metaphorical representations of presence. The dialogues that take place in this work include the projections with institutions of ideology, as well as with the viewer as participant.