Part of the Explore Expand Exploit Exterminate exhibition, this triptych was developed during a 2021 residency at Villa Médicis as the outcome of research into Civilization II. The work is based on a recovered game file (ju_finis.sav), documenting the final year of a 20-hour session spanning 5,000 years of simulated history. At this stage, the Roman Empire has achieved total dominance, eradicating the Sioux, Mongols, and Vikings after reaching the Moon in 1862.

The composition echoes the structure of an altarpiece while translating the pixel-based cartography of the game into painted form. Its visual language draws deliberate parallels with Ignazio Danti’s Galleria delle carte geografiche in the Vatican, where a 16th-century worldview was meticulously rendered to assert papal power.