Assenza is a series of photographs that reflect on the feeling of absence and memory in a particular house in Italy close to the my heart. It ran in Odder bar in Manchester and also at Home From Home in Leeds during the Leeds International Artist Book Fair in March 2011. "assenza /asˈsɛnza/ ab•sence /ˈabs(ə)ns/ noun the state of being away from a place or person: the letter had arrived during his absence | I supervised the rehearsal in the absence of the director. • an occasion or period of being away from a place or person: repeated absences from school. • (absence of) the nonexistence or lack of: she found his total absence of facial expression disconcerting. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin absentia, from absens, absent- (see absent)."