Full Circle
Roma 1979 merging into 2026
A description about the video projection.

Light and Reflection are the main components combining these series of objects.

I started making the sculptures in Rome, 1979. By the spring of 1980 I began to take the pieces out into the city. With the help of Chris Harvey, we made super 8 films of the process documenting our journey through the streets of Rome while handling the objects.

I was intrigued with this shield shaped structure and I made vessels, globes, head coverings which I painted on. I made transparent shields constructed of balsa wood frames and plastic.

We carried and documented these pieces through the streets to the parks. The Villa Borghese and it’s surroundings were an open surface, the sky becoming a screen.

In 2025 I started to wonder about these old super 8s. We both found many reels and Chris was able to transfer them to video in time for me to join The Salon Roma in May of 2026. With the help of Michael Kramer, we gilded a screen with the shield shape and projected the video onto the gilded screen. This took place in the historic Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli, Roma. I was able to create digital images exposing the light and the video over the gilded textured paper.

The effect brought me to another understanding of how we continue to create over time.

Rome introduced to me to gilding and I began to incorporate this reflectivity into my work starting in 1979 and continuing through today.

One will be able to see the video projection as well as a copy of the projection on the gilded screen in the background of my homepage. The second option being part of the enhanced gilding and light concept that I am enamored with.

Jill London Oct. 2026