Polar Bears was completed in May 2005. Part figurative and part abstract, part environmental-tale and part personal-essay, this work examines two seemingly different stories: the first about an oil company engineer who tells me about designing a big drill site in Siberia, the second about a young man’s desire for fame in the age of celebrity kings and queens.

What common grounds do the white bears of Siberia have with the young New York, wannabe-famous artist? None, it seems. And yet both still co-exist within the same palette of experiences that define a modern western existence: Everyone wants to be famous these days, everyone wants to be rich: there aren’t enough Polar Bears in this world. There are too many ‘artists’.

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