Step Across this Line

Valerie and Gotscho embracing
by Nan Goldin, Paris [1999].

To cross a frontier is to be transformed... The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we can't avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the world's harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontier's windowless halls, we see things as they are.

Salman Rushdie