Fetish of the Mind
Memories, Dreams and Fantasy

As a child I was a dreamer.  I grew up in a typical dysfunctional family and as a means of escape I often withdrew into the fantastical world of my own imagination.   My conscious reality has always seemed like a surreal blur of interrelated events.  These have been filtered and stored for safe keeping as memories that have been etched somewhere in the depths of my mind.  While my memories are of experiences that I have encountered on a conscious level, my dreams and fantasies have given me a glimpse into the deepest recesses of my subconscious self.

This series is a temporal exploration of the dialog between the photographic image and the mysterious realm of the subconscious mind.  In my work the familiar, the strange, the real and the imagined all unite within the frame of a photograph.  Memories of the people, places, objects, events and experiences tend to fade away as we are distanced from them through time.  My photographs come from somewhere within the depths of my mind and are revealed through my artistic process.  I am using this body of work as a way to explore, reconstruct and recontextualize these transitory visions of my past in an effort to better understand how they have shaped me into the artist and person that I am today.  Essentially I am still a dreamer but instead of searching for escape I now seek deeper understanding.