While confronting two different cultures, globalisation leads to the reemergence of half-forgotten cultural archetypes. American Chronicles seek to explore the Russian mentality in the American environment. Ornamental patterns, clothes and distaffs from Medieval Russia are combined on the background of a Californian sea-side and urban down-town to produce a surrealistic collage mix. The author aspires to create a new entity by questioning the perception of traditional Russian archetypes amid the elements of the other culture and in dialogue with them. American Chronicles may be considered either a journalistic report of the artist's trip to the USA, of his research experiment and soul-searching act.