The Dead Romans Society is an iteration of the idea that the text is alive. Texts begin to exist once they are read: the memory of the reader turns them into living entities. Drawing on this premise, my art tries to answer one haunting question: what does it mean to exist in memory? How far can the tension between The Text as a lifeless, fixed object, and the text as an ever-fluid being of change stretch before it breaks?
My art, be it my comics, my illustrations, or my writing, is about these textual ghosts. Specifically, about ancient Roman textual ghosts. If you’re familiar with Latin literature, you’ll recognize them by name: Catullus, Ovid, Vergil, Horace, Lucretius, Cicero, and many others exist all together in the timeless Ghost Rome. The memory of the living grants them life: if you want to know the rest, you’re very much welcome to stay.
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