While a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1997, Allison Lasley created “The Rome Journals,” a series of small works on paper that combine ink and water-soluble paint with collage elements. Arranged in a chronological grid, the drawings form a detailed record of Lasley’s experiences. Yet the grid also suggests universal themes. For Eleanor Heartney, who wrote the show’s accompanying essay, the work is a “tapestry” that “expresses the complex texture of lived experience, in which sights, sounds, and smells mingle with dreams, memories, and fantasies. Subtle changes across the grid become a map of the incremental progress of the passing days.”