From Russia with Love is a series of 72 portraits of Russian “mail order brides” drawn from photographs on internet sites. The series and resulting installations were an extension of my previous work exploring serial portraiture-- yearbook photos, WWII military portraits-- and the idea of portraits of this nature serving as “human catalogues.” Using the laborious act of drawing each woman’s likeness by hand, the work attempts to subvert the idea of these women being catalogued, while alluding to their commodification through their presentation within a storefront installation and bookwork “catalogue” multiple.