In 2008, the Woodmans renovated and expanded upon a storage space underneath their centuries-old farmhouse in Antella, Italy, transforming it into George’s new studio. His darkroom was tucked into the old stone structure, which had once been a wine cellar. They created a big, bright room with plenty of space for photography, painting, writing, and thinking, surrounded by views of the Tuscan countryside out the windows. Never one to leave a canvas blank, George decorated the new exterior wall with his version of “sgraffito,” a technique of scratching into plaster walls, popularized in 15th and 16th Century Italy and significant in the Italian Renaissance.