"To stand behind Aaron Yassin’s camera is to begin to fashion an alternate reality. The truth of the moment—here among Venetian palaces, churches and piazzas—is multiplied into escalating tiers of understanding, as Yassin digitally manipulates his photographs into kaleidoscopic splices that repeat, mirror and transform across his rectangular vistas. By cutting and pasting specific architectural elements, Yassin’s large-format photographic prints offer a contemporary vision of the infinite similar to what the Islamic tile-cutters attempted to achieve with their abstracted gardens, ornamented mosques and shrines across the Arab world. It is fitting, then, that Yassin should take for his subject that city which sat for so many centuries as a portal between eastern and western empires, its architecture a graft of Moorish motifs and medieval Christian ornamentation."
