This work explores how easily the mind can move between what is real and what is perceived, or shadowed by reality. And what is reality anyway? Often unsettled by the slightest motion, or texture, or light, to become dark or ominous. Perhaps reality becomes another sense of the subject, with an entirely different impact?
I made these characters 12-14 years ago while on a retreat in Newfoundland, Canada, and have photographed them in many situations and settings since that time. They have been in an abandonned fishing hut in Pouch Cove, on rocky shores near San Francisco, and in the mountains in Montana. In this series they are in my studio, taking on what is fraught in this contemporary world of conflict, containment and covid. It is perhaps a time when we are all wondering what is real, and what is disarmingly hovering over and around our minds and bodies.
The fabrics are all entirely personal to me, with memories and meaning thus stitched into each of their wild demeanours. The viewer will add their own story as they interpret this leg of their journey.
