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In collaboration with Liliya Lifanova.

This project is inspired by one of the most visually spectacular events in the life of a cell: its division. The 'stage,' which the viewer sees from above is a theater-in-the-round, similar to a microscope stage where the specimens are mounted for examination. The lens of the camera, like the objective lenses of the scientific instrument, observes a ceremony that evokes a network of symbolisms and metaphors. The choreography is reduced to a minimal cartography that sequentially illustrates the movement of each performer through and within the delineated space. Reproduced on transparencies, the drawings fail to provide one with any additional context required to understand the looping, non-linear footage. As a set, these components are part of an equation where the n variable is the unknown.