"The starting point was a search for correspondences, in Europe, between the faces of the present and the faces of its past, of its history, through the forms of painting and sculpture. As I began working on this project, placing side by side the faces photographed today, my idea became refined: the basic idea of bringing together, of parallelism between the faces of today and the statues or paintings of yesterday remained the guiding idea. These statues, I looked at them for a long time, I fed on them, I became imbued with them." Gladys