While I was traveling during my semester studying in Rome, I became obsessed with taking pictures of numbers. Immediately after landing in a new country my hunt for numbers would begin, no matter where I was or what I was doing, I constantly stopped to take pictures of every number I saw. At the end of my travels I was left over 700 pictures of numbers and no idea what I was going to do with them all. 

After returning back to the states an idea finally came to me and I set about photoshopping my pictures. I organized them by city and mixed the pictures of numbers with my favorite pictures from the cities in which they were found. 

After the layouts were created I began transferring them to large planks of wood...