Sfogliatelle (a type of Italian pastry and meaning 'many leaves/layers') continues to explore a sculptural work Facades/Flats that Emily Speed made in Rome in 2012. Façades/Flats looked at the layers of theatrical façades that exist within a city, especially those whose bricks, design or size communicate power and clearly signify exclusion. Speed is also interested in the ever-changing nature of cities and how quickly buildings appear and disappear. In the print, several layers do not really exist; they are made using only negative space and hopefully create a slippery space that one can never be totally certain about.

Sfogliatelle, 2013
by Emily Speed
Screen Print,
Signed Limited Edition of 50