I saw these prints by Carla Liesching at the 2010 Spier Contemporary. I like the simple composition of the pictures and her ideas intrigue me. And of course, I’m in love with printed photographs. Carla explains: “The Swimmers is an ongoing series of photographs in which I am questioning identity linked to both space and how we think of home. The work has grown out of personal circumstances and is a set of responses to a current moment in my life. These circumstances are not particularly uncommon, in that they involve a state of being in the world that is becoming the defining trait of our generation and time: A collective sense of displacement, an awareness of foreignness and a search for belonging that cannot be tied to one fixed geographical or geological place. The Swimmers refers to an identity caught up in a state of constant flux, to liminal spaces where borders are constantly erased and redrawn.”