Utopia or nightmare? Real or virtual? Infinite - or will there be a big finale? These are the questions coming to mind while suburban single-family dwellings, front lawn included, appear and disappear, one after the other. Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility is one peaceful flow of images, totally void of human appearances, underlined by synthetically produced electronic sounds. A flux of images inviting to leisurely watching. The camera steadily moves through a suburban residential area, very non-specific as far as its geographic situation is concerned. White picket fences suggest typically North American middle-class suburbia, other requisites seem to quote Germany. The seemingly endless flow of evergreen hedges, water fountains and white-washed facades is un­ disturbed by any life, be it human or animal: houses as representations of an individually designed life-style, exposed as mere facade. Enclaves for a life planned along 90° angles, with no tolerance for dirt and chaos. Manifestations of the trivial desires governing the average Western society, not to be shaken by terror or by a state of emergency. A home made of wood and stone, functioning as a stonewall against other notions/concepts of life. And then, suddenly, in the middle of this idyllic parade of countrified homes, minute irritations: isn’t this house in the foreground a little blurred, doesn’t this gate look too-good-to-be-true? Small fissures in the flow of perception slowly amount to questions: where do these images come from, how were they produced? To the viewer it is not obvious that they were created by a camera mounted in a miniature model into which photographies had been set. And so the eyes keep on searching the surface of the image for clues not provided by the image itself.