Life Could Be A Dream

“The universe is a great creative moment that is imagining us as we try to imagine it.

We are the authors of the fiction of our realities”

Duane Michals

The Land bears constant witness and reveals itself as an endless stream of images. But the conscious mind is selective, and memory illusive. My Life Could Be a Dream series works in the realm of perception and illusion and explores our mental processes of combining new and remembered visual inputs while we create our own realities. These photographic works are assemblages of images that are drawn from my everyday life.  My process uses digital imagery to deconstruct photographs into 0’s and 1’s, mix them into a digital bardo, and bring forth a new vision with abstract forms that carry the secret narratives of their ancestor images.  I am drawn to the possibilities of everyday subjects mingling in a space where the present and the past are compressed into the moment.  While the means is digital, I see the outcome as physical prints that celebrate color and form together with literal narrative.  I search for models and metaphors in ordinary subjects with which I have a long acquaintance as I explore my own fragile and aging relationship with my environment.

Digits: A Parallel Universe - Griffin Photography Museum - Lafayette Gallery, 2021