Dreamland

Dreamland is that state of being that lies between the borders of surrealism and abstract. Sometimes unknown country and other times territory that is well known but altered. My art falls into this category neither belonging entirely to one or the other. It is heavily dependent on natural light and more frequently the source is infrared light. Infrared changes scenes or landscapes from real to surreal and often can invoke feelings of mystery and even desolation or apocalyptic events. Not wanting to subject my psyche to those feelings on a constant basis I lighten things up a bit by using color either through infrared methods or by using software to create painterly colorful images. Examples of this would be a photograph titled "Detritus" a B&W infrared image of a beach that has a decidedly apocalyptic mood. The other example is a cheerful and colorful image of a horse that is titled "Horse of Many Colors". Both of these are viewable in my collections.