Throughout this semester, I have been creating and then photographing models of spaces from my own imagination that evoke feelings of mystery and the ethereal and haunting qualities of dream worlds. Through photography, a medium that suggests reality and documentation, I attempt to capture the moments through which the world of reality and the world of the fantastic dream cross over, enveloping the viewer in a state of altered belief. I challenge them to question whether the image I provide is a real and existing space, or whether they must dispel it as a fantasy, or a fairy tale. I urge them to, just for a moment, believe in the impossible reality of these spaces. I tend to draw from iconic images within children's stories and fairy tales: an enchanted bedroom forest, a troll behind the curtain, a monster under the stairs, a castle in the sky. With these images, I gesture toward the imagination that we once had as children when we believed that anything was possible.

The works included in this exhibition show my progression over the past four months. Oliver's Travels was my earliest work; a sequence of three photographs of diorama boxes that depict the travels of a young boy in the world of his dreams. Next, The Dollhouse Series, a work that began as an exploration of a young girl's playful imagination, has come to express the unsettling and ominous world that dreams can truly represent rather than the lighthearted imaginings of the daydream. Finally, Forest Dwelling and Sky Dwelling are the products of my desire to represent the elemental landscape. They are my creation of miniature worlds, providing ample space for the viewer to create their own narrative, and ultimately fill the work's meaning with their own imaginative curiosity.