“Tell us a story from your day!” Each evening my roommates and I receive this prompt from our home stay family to start off dinner discussion. However, just as consistent as their inquiry is my desire and inability to tell them about Theme Sequence. How do I adequately explain, in Italian, our exercises of using marks to recreate traditions or altering found images and postcards? I just can't seem to find the right way to explain them. These exercises have been both frustrating and intriguing to me. Frustrating because until now, thinking has been the foundation of my projects. Intriguing because the exercises have forced me to do the opposite. To work without an end in mind, without consciously knowing what will happen. Through these exercises I have discovered instinctive patterns in my work that have caused me to consider the ideas of masking and layering in my work.