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Robin Ballard . Identity. The sound of a television playing, a vacuum cleaner running and even the music from an accordion could be heard, but if a passerby were to ring the doorbell, the lights turned off and the sounds coming from within went silent. The work was entitled Anachoret, which means to withdraw from, or to be a recluse. Switzerland is at the center of Europe and yet chooses to remain independent from the countries that surround it. Is it Switzerland’s size or location which defines its national persona? Or perhaps it is the country’s landscape — the alps acting as a natural fortress. Since moving to Switzerland I have spent a fair amount of time in the alps, most notably the mountainous region of the Valais.

Most of the work on this site is made from sketches similar to the image above -a photo-collage or more recently digital-collages roughly 6″ x 6″-  made to look like a believable space thru repeating elements of the same landscape.