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Karin Bubas's most recent body of work came about through her response to a themed group show held at Monte Clarke's Vancouver gallery in 2005. The exhibition was called "Park" and so Bubas dressed herself in a white trench coat and went to Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, where she had her partner photograph her standing beside a huge Redwood tree. The photograph, called Eurydice, was a restaging of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. "I had a really positive response to the mystery of my face being turned away from the camera and the relationship between the figure and the landscape, so I decided to experiment with the way Hitchcock creates mood and drama and apply it to some of my photographs." Bubas wasn't concerned to recreate film scenes exactly; sometimes she was after less specific aesthetic characteristics. While the photograph...