I titled this body of work the “Wool-Gathering” series since, much like daydreaming, I use my imagination to transform the everyday world around me. This series began by first imagining various ways that I could juxtapose photographs of real scenes from the everyday world with photographs of staged scenes that were created using man-made materials as well as parts of printed images. I wanted the diptychs to mimic one another as well as to create a visual trick or conundrum. Instead of setting up any false pretenses, I am letting the viewer know up front that I am creating work with visual tricks in an attempt to speak about perception. Not only visual perception, but perception in general and how we interpret and make meaning of the world around us, as well as what we presume. For we often take what we see, hear, or read for granted - whether in a photograph, book, newspaper or magazine article, movie, or just looking out at the world around us and at others. Things aren’t always what they seem.
There seems to be two worlds that we inhabit, the natural world and the man-made or constructed world.