Rome Eternelle, artist’s book

A few years ago I bought a 1960’s book in the antique market in Arles, ‘Dans les pas des Césars’ (in the footsteps of Cesars).
The book invited me to a promenade in the antique Rome, la ‘Rome éternelle’.

From the promenade feeling came my wish for the leporello form of this artist’s book.
‘Rome éternelle’ is a book to be set up as an unfolded accordion and be walked around, or to be set as an unfolded long strip to be strolled about.

How does one relate to the remnants of a great historical and artistic past?
How to connect with the ‘then’ in the ‘now’ ? To be a permanent tourist in the flowing of time.
Playing with mirrors, shadows, small objects, my hands and the camera, I prolongated this stroll for a fraction of eternity.

“Ce qui est ferme, est par le temps détruit, /Et ce qui fuit, au temps fait résistence”
(‘What is firm is destroyed by time / And what flees, resists time’.)
Joachim du Bellay, ‘Antiquités de Rome’ (1558)