“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
-Roman Payne (from the “29th Soliloquy”)

As a boy, Roman Payne was sent to a Catholic art conservatory in hopes that he would become an ecclesiastic painter. He excelled in the visual arts, music and literature, but at the age of 18, he abandoned all formal education. Struck with wanderlust, he opted for an itinerant life of travel.