Growing up around a marble memorial for the victims of Pompeii,  I always saw it as a statue of get saddness and fear. 

I wanted to give these memorative statues a new lease on life, and give them a relevance in the contemporary world. 

By placing my own face directly over the top of these marble statues, I have created a link between the past and present.

I intentionally did not alter the statue or my own face to match each other, which resulted in a huge shock. At least one part of my face matched up perfectly with each of the marble faces beneath. While this shook me at first, it gave me a closer connection to those individuals who lost their lives in Pompeii. By not blending the two images together seemlessly, I wanted to show the two time periods clearly, and at the same time the similarities that still exist two thousand years later.