It is the fact that Ivars has subtly modified the landscape, erasing some elements and inserting others in their place or elsewhere. There is enough left to allow the space maintain a certain familiarity, and enough changed to mine that familiarity and create a feeling of discomfort.

Confronted with the images, one feels that the knowledge one had about the spaces wasn't quite right, and the certainties one had about what the experience of the location should be like have vanished.The act of reading the image - and reading the city with it - becomes a challenging task.The postcard image offers past, present, and the possibility of a future, but the sense of history and its rules always pervades. In Isabel's photographs, the modification of the landscape opens a different dynamic. By disrespectfully changing the biuldings, Ivars liberates the image from the narrative structure of history. Creating a distance, suspending the possibility of complete recognition, and causing an intense sense of unrest. But here, the feeling of disquiet is just the symptom of a newly found freedom.