![]() Whenever I crossed that border to Russia, Europe always seemed a world a way and I had to search for the starting point once more. This question troubled me for some time and I didn't know how to answer it. On these travels I strove to understand if there were such gradations in my own familiar reality – in Russia – what it is like and how it presents itself. I noted the changes in the organization of the place and thus people's relation to one another, changes in their mindset, way of life and stereotypes of each other. This certain “syntax" of space and the construct of a “language" in relation to the visual environment, their constant evolution, flowing from one form into another on the crossing of borders within the European Union set me thinking about the idea of borders in general, through certain situations, meetings, details, subjects, conversations. On my first significant travels around Europe I was struck by the way that appearances, the visible – architecture, landscapes, nature, had an effect on people's inner and personal lives – culture, self-definition, the character and worldview of people, their “inner landscape", and thus on the symbolic environment that surrounds them and comes from within – these things are mutually interdependent and interrelated. ![]() ![]() Simultaneously coexisting on two different sides – is this an attempt to break free of the duality of the world, or rather an attempt to mark the border of what is possible in its interpretation, to test its limits? In both cases this is a search for some symbolic, almost ungraspable borderline, in order to define and understand it, to transcend and perhaps join it.
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