The picture plane is a threshold that separates illusion from reality. Although it refers to the surface of a two-dimensional object, it more accurately describes the process of looking into an illusionistic space without noticing the material on which the image rests. This occurs when we observe photographs or watch TV. We see the image, not the plastic screen or paper. Our minds have trouble holding both in view at once. What happens, then, when the picture plane is broken? When its presence and absence compete for our attention, disrupting our sense of realities (material/real and illusionistic)?  Here, in this intermedia zone of photography-sculpture, where sensorial and optical perceptions wildly intersect, the photographers in this exhibition recognize something familiar.