(via Oneironaut - butterfly knife)
These pieces communicate the fantastical, surreal feelings of my own dreams through the very reality-based medium of photography. Some of the photographs are recreations of “snapshot” memories of dreams — a detailed fragment from a larger, mostly-forgotten dream — while other photographs attempt to recreate the overall feeling of a particular dream. I experimented with lighting and very slow shutter speeds in order to distort and hide parts of the subject, while highlighting and revealing others — conveying the feeling of a dream not fully remembered. In order to suggest the layers of sensory information that exist within dreams and just how distorted they can be, I manipulated the negatives and the prints. By scratching and drawing on the negatives I could create bold shapes and borders while also adding a grimy, aged quality to the photographs. Layers of torn and cutout sheets of tissue, placed directly on top of the photo paper during exposure created ghostly, warped shapes.






