Diana Markosian

Can you explain for us your project Santa Barbara and what led you to create it? Santa Barbara is a reconstruction of my childhood memory of how my family arrived to America from the former Soviet Union. What led me to create it was learning the truth behind how my family arrived to America. I grew up understanding one version and when I was twenty-seven my mom opened up and revealed how we arrived here. My mother had placed an advertisement through a Russian agency, in search of a man...