May we all enjoy 20/20 vision as we enter a new decade. During 2019 I concentrated on my Roman Elegies series (many of the paintings were sold) in response to a return trip to Rome, one of my favorite cities and surely the most magical, but also a sorely tainted kingdom haunted by silent screams. But nothing is stationary and as usual I explore the constant, energizing flux of opposites — clarity/mystery, place/displacement.