Vanishing Point: The Vicious And Virtuous Circle
After the Vanishing Point and the Lure of Logic
Still Waiting ... After Heartfield (2008)
Valley of Castle (Hunting Eagles)
and there goes the Challenger...
These two photographs were taken years apart. In shuffling through my stacks of printed self portraits, I found the similarity between the two images, never remembering taking the second, alien-like image. Coincidentally, I realized that my first name, transliterated from the Russian language into which I was born, forms an anagram of 'Alien.' When I lived in Paris, feeling very much a foreigner for multiple reasons of marginality (as an American, a Jew, and a queer), I stenciled the word' Liena' over and over again: read another way, its said alienalienalienalien. A narrative of return thus haunts the image and language: a visual anagram of repetition and exile.
