Destination Unknown.jpg	Hermitage.jpg	Installation View I.jpg
Installation View II.jpg	Men at Work.jpg	Poetic Soul.jpg
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SUBPLOT

Studio Gallery 88
October 17-December 31, 2007
Presented by Artists Unite LIVE

Artists Statement

My recent explorations have focused on perception of the environment. We have such solid views about what physicists and mystics tell us is anything but solid. But we gather biased data through imperfect means, such as vision, language, and inference and weave stories that we defend, sometimes to the death.

In this series of photographs, made on a trip to Russia in May, 2007, I planned to make images of the built environment: some of the architecture that I find so unique to Russia. Instead I found myself drawn to the subplots: the individuals moving past artistic, historical, monumental—or just quirky—structures, each one with his or her own motive, hence perspective, hence story. The see the picture from its many facets—sometimes literally as the image is broken apart—becomes metaphorical of the dichotomy between the individual and societal viewpoints.