Sherkova, T.A. Metamorphoses of the borderland.

Abstract: The “frontier” is an event, an image and a feeling. It is also a motive and an archetype. This phenomenon is practically drainless in its content because it characterizes a variety of aspects and situations which are, however, come to one only “core” construct. In a word, the frontier is a place in time and space (a border, neutral territory) where the opposites meet and face the conflict which is eventually solved by their synthesis. There, at the frontier, transformation takes place and something new appears. That is the place of creation.