Milner Art Gallery

In my images I attempt to capture the space that exists between fully recalling a dream and the haziness of not remembering having had a dream at all. There is a sense of intrigue in half-remembered dreams; certain elements are clear and have a feeling of familiarity to them while other elements seem like juxtapositions, lending them to interpretation learned through experience.

Dreams tend to pull on experiences past, present, and presumed, with the result being a mish-mash of information following no consistent timeline; my images try to deliberately set up parameters using visual cues drawn from my own experience and the shared experience of popular culture. By finding a balance between too much and too little information, an image will at once suggest something familiar and unfamiliar. However, like a game of telephone tag, the message is eventually lost, shrouded in the process of continual reinterpretation. If the viewer could know what happens before or after the constructed image, the story may fall into place. But ultimately, the viewer is left to create his/her own narrative.

I try and use identifiable symbols from TV and film, but force them together in a way that makes viewers develop their own storylines for the photograph. By having these images printed large and mounted on a wall, I am giving the viewer a safe, yet voyeuristic window to interpret these relationships.