"The Distance Between” is an installation of a 59” x 88” photograph with two large scale sculptures. I attempt to capture the sense of alienation I experienced upon my arrival in the United States as a stateless refugee from the former Soviet Union. Navigating a new country, languages, customs, social norms, and conflicting rules was a strange and disorienting. The constructed set references Brighton Beach, a place my family visited frequently, while the figurative measuring tools are imagined characters. I explore the distance between memory and reality, what is real and what is imagined.