Rome Eternelle

Few years ago I bought a 1960’s book on the antic market in Arles, ‘Dans les pas des Césars’ (in the footsteps of Cesars).
The book invited me a ballade in the antique Rome, la “Rome éternelle”.

How does one relate to the remnants of a great historical and artistic past?
How to connect with the ‘then’ in the ‘now’ ?

I feel being a permanent tourist in the flowing of time.
Playing with mirrors, shadows, small objects, my hands and the camera, I prolongated this ballade for a fraction of eternity.