“Attic is a metaphorical space, signifying journey, shelter, and memory. Beyond Bachelard’s poetic investigations, it was inspired by a Baroque architectural detail from an 18th-century painting by Gian Paulo Panini. Charlton’s primary drawings of two atlas figures flanking a pair of cherubs derived from this painting. He drew this image on the four cardinal-direction gable walls. Making each progressive drawing more complete. He also included other ‘art treasures’, referencing the Pantheon, Medici Chapel, Paris Catacombs, and Pompeii.”