The series Third Space (2004-2005) by Whitney Stolich numbers sixteen works, one for each pair of "twin" cities divided by the United States - Mexico borders. Each work is a pair of photographs joining two cities, not only because their images are side by side, but also because often there is an element, morphological or conceptual, extending from one to the next: be it residences with similar architectural or decorative characteristics, or twin factories of american interests advocating the utilization of cheap labor and the existing infrastructure, the works demonstrate the pressure exerted on the border by the mutual need for penetration. Stolich examines the creation of an informal zone where the parallel development and mutual dependence of two communities lead to cultural convergence or fusion, prevailing over the tension of the immigration limit on one of the most closely guarded borders of the planet. In this context, she locates the existence of a "third space" where the emerging economic, social and cultural effects negotiate concepts such as co-operation and internationalism, transcending the partition imposed by the political border. The final photograph in the series depicts the sky above the borderline where, inevitably, all exclusions become invisible.
Correspondingly, the series Land Above Sky Below (2007-2008) examines the trend of big investments in the United States that are effected by buying the "air" above places with a surplus of land use coefficient and transferring this right elsewhere, thus extending profit maximization to every possible dimension. Stolich creates vertical triptychs where the base is a photograph of the initial site, the middle is an image of the air above it and on top there is the final investment product, demonstrating how the land goes higher than the sky. Contrary to the previous series, emphasis here is on discontinuity, fragmentation, the abrupt change of scale created by the economic exploitation of the "empty space" above metro stations, protected regions or other properties, allowing the enlargement of shopping malls or residential complexes.

Whitney Stolich was born in Monterey, California and studied Urban Planning at Loyola Marymount University and Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design. Her artistic interests focus on themes belonging to the common ground of these two fields: that is, the complex reality often caused by economic development in western societies, as well as the way this can be visualized through the photographic medium. For example, in her series Landuse (2003-2004) she examined aspects of the residential development in southern California, in a way that seems to be suspended between reality and the elliptical vision of a scale model. In her series Third Space 2004-2005) and Land Above Sky Below (2007-2008) correspondingly, she attempts to read into two different aspects of land ownership, constantly renewing her artistic language according to the subject matter's requirements.