In both The Migration Series and The World Series, the artists start off with images of departure: Lawrence with a train station and deSouza with an airport. Then they take different roads: Lawrence’s travel is driven by historical events and deSouza’s by personal experience. As opposed to Lawrence’s narrative centered on a specific moment in time and place, deSouza’s narrative is intentionally de-centered, dealing instead with the phenomenological aspects of reality expressed through sense-experience, and revealing the uncertainty of the historicizing process itself. In The World Series, he mixes the images of airport terminals, runways, waiting rooms,customs offices, skies, street signs, highways, and landscapes in order to present not only his own travels but also scenes of people in transit that inevitably expose the power relationships as well racial,ethnic, and gender differences. By framing his images through his own subjective lens, deSouza further undermines the notion of subjectivity as neutral and points to its dependence of social, cultural, and ideological context. Moreover, by playing with scale, and transferring the vast sites into small images, he subverts the actual size of places in order to question our own perception and knowledge of things we see, hence underlining the contingency of vision, representation, and ultimately the meaning.