A Theater of Subjectivity 

I consider a photograph interesting whenver a photographer's view of reality does not double my knowledge of the world, but a diffreence between our respective perceptions occurs. The smaller the difference, the more intense is its effect on me. Thus it's less about a precise represnetion of reality than the formulation of the representation of the world. From this viewpoint and within the tenchincal medium, we can talk about the photographer as an author who - on the baiss of facts and by means of minimal shifts of pereception - creates a fiction in close proximity to reality. In literature, I like those stories the best that are told in an understandable, precise language. In the best case, an author cannot only describe the stiuation and objects, but can endow them with a deeper meaning and lets them transcend themselves with a distrubing force. This is an irritating trait of literature (and any other art form) as it depreives us of convictions and poses more questions that it answers.
- Thomas Weski Draft of a Presenation of the art of William Eggleston

I am drawn to the photographic medium because its imagery closely resembles my interior vision. The function of cutting out slices of the observed world and contextualizing them within a private space mimics the function of perception. The world I observe through the camera lens can easily become a projection of my own theater of subjectivity. Weski's fiction which closely approximates reality is just such a theater, which is always being preformed in the photographer's view finder. The events that take place on this stage have a life of their own, as complicated and rich in meaning and feeling as a living organism. 

My own choices are depended on the "feeling" of being moved by the precise combination of many different elements within a moment of time. My selection process is guided by intuition and emotion, by my memories, my past and my sensory experience. Growing up in a small town on the edges of the Moldavian countryside (the former Soviet Union), and immigration at the age of twelve to a large American metropolis - this is where my "minimal shifts of perceptions" originate. My practice is informed by the experience a diaspora's fractured identity infused with nostalgia and longing. Applying this experience to everyday life, I hope to transform what I see in front of me into metaphors.

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