These images, photographed in Romania, are constructed realities. Dark, somber and haunting, the Constructs series depicts a variety of “Homelands” (that most nostalgic of places). These Homelands, however, belong in the historical past. The Constructs : Romania series was photographed during the essential activities of preparing for the coming winter. These images not only reference a pre-Modern world, a world which rarely exists, but one to which we are inexplicably drawn. They make no attempt to return the Romanian culture to a document of the real. Instead, they celebrate the necessity of nostalgia and its pivotal place in the realm of the poetic. Softly focused, allusive and dream-like, these pictures revel in their Romanticism drawing on the visual language of 18th and 19th century landscape painting. Yet they are grounded in the photographic real, depicting a nostalgic, fictional picture of a place that is firmly planted in the present.
