Prompt: Sections of a Mannerist fresco peel away to reveal obscured glimpses of the original painting beneath, its monochrome Renaissance forms intermingling with traces of color previously concealed, now displayed in a state of transient emergence and gradual wipe as if viewed through an unstable kaleidoscope, presented alongside extracts from the diaries of Gogol and Michaux on a period loop, the dislocated fragments and excerpts embedded within an indeterminate spectrum of dematerializing light.