what is surreal is the sheer perception of a person, place, thing, or idea amidst all of the combinations of variables that would have resulted in the person, place, thing or idea to have existed beyond my perception. Life's innateness and inherentness created its own surrealism and fantasma through the manufacturing of goods, the designs and embellishments of life of which are pointless or imbued with deep meanings, the way that ownership transforms life and how inanimate objects become dressed with character and identity. the visual phenomena of nature's textures. the cultural and famililal context that lies invisibly behind images we created and imagined. the endless web of connections and references that jut out from any person, place, thing or idea forms a reality that is purely individual and cannot fully be shared or copied in its entirety. We dont immediately consider how the things we interact with shape our identities and perceptions of the lived experience. we dont know the origins of the things we see and use and perceive. a shift in ownership can become a shift in perceptions of reality which shift our actual realities, which is surreal in and of itself. as we strive to move closer to the vision we carry in our minds, we enter and traverse through infinite states of change.
a selection of images from my life, each one with its own location, place in time, cultural and familial context, represents my own personal surrealism, where the fantastic and mundane exist as each other, the known and unknown exist as each other, playing the roles of catalyst for change.