"I am motivated by duality. I am equally intrigued by light and dark, old and new, man and nature, pattern and chaos.

When I chose images for this exhibit, I viewed my decisions as discordant rather than thematic. In actuality, the photos have one commonality: they are an ordinary part of my surroundings captured to illustrate the beauty I see. Each photo was something I felt compelled to shoot, primarily for the way the light revealed the extraordinary within the subject.

The torn images are from an ongoing series of posters in subways that have been changed by time and man. What attracts me to them are the conflicting layers of images and type in addition to the human element shown in the peeling and defacing. What was once a contrived commercial piece of communication is turned into an abstract, unpredictable work of art by the anonymous hands of the public." ---- Mary Sylvester