Bridging cultural differences between East and West through pictures is the subject of a new exhibit opening this week in Miami Beach.

The Ant Project presents the work of Carina Mask and Andrea Bores, Dec. 3-8 at Art Untitled, 1200 Ocean Drive. The exhibit, Etheric Matter, contrasts images captured by Bores in Mexico to those taken by Mask in Japan. 

“The goal of the Ant Project being in an art fair like Untitled is to start conversations and for people to become more engaged and introspective, taking something away from their experience attending the fair,” said Guadalupe Garcia, who has modeled the organization after the collective intelligence of ants — tiny insects that achieve remarkable goals through collaboration. 

Mask, an award-winning photographer and frequent contributor to Out South Florida, used nature images to express her thoughts on Shintoism and Buddhism — religions that are widely practiced in Japan.

Bores’ captures landscapes shaped by thermodynamics to display the unpredictability of terrain.