Waiting for Alice

Landscape Through the Looking Glass “We begin as children seeing the world as a mystery.” -George DeWolfe, Contemplative Photography, 2007 Changing perceptions in our world is a strong conduit for emotional experiences. These connectors produce vulnerability, fear, and disorientation as well as certainty, comfort, and awareness. There is inherent magic and wonder in moments of self-discovery through childlike imagination. By stopping and experiencing the world around us, we gain perspectives on whom and where we are. My intent is to recapture feelings of possibility, utilizing internal responses from the mystery, mood, and inquiry I create. The play of size and scale, light and dark, and warm and cool produces these responses. I purposefully manipulate these formal means and environs with different size furniture to lead the viewer to more inquisitive emotional outcomes. Furniture is familiar, comfortable, and welcoming. It triggers safe memories and subconscious connections to the past. However, when placed in unfamiliar and wild surroundings, furniture emanates new awareness and brings new meanings to rekindled youthful imaginations. Escape into each image becomes an exploration in the push/pull of adult vs. child and big vs. small as we elicit the emotions of another place and time This Fine Art/Landscape series includes twenty 20" x 20" digital photographs, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, face mounted on plexi/acrylic.