‘Border protection’ (2018): A photographic series staging the edgy special relationship between America and Canada—not as geopolitical fact, but as a drama of Imaginary identification and Symbolic imbalance. Here, the North American bond appears less as alliance than as misrecognition: Canada, the pacified ego-ideal, gazes across the mirror at its louder Other, while America, caught in its own fantasy of exceptionality, overlooks the asymmetry that structures desire. What is depicted is not merely diplomacy or distance, but the flicker of a phantasm: neighbourliness haunted by domination, resemblance tinged with resentment—a relationship sustained not by mutual understanding, but by the constitutive gap that keeps the subject divided.
