"Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three. Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see into your imagination. We'll begin with a spin, traveling in the world of my creation. What we'll see will defy explanation. If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.  Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it. There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."
- Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

In a perfect world, we discover imperfect circumstances. Ascension, explores four seasons of life. Whether wandering aimlessly, seeking truth and knowledge, entering a path to death, or transcending, we are all creators and creatures of our own perception.
[curiouser and curiouser…]
In the midst of our existence, the way that art is experienced and perceived is sometimes not too far removed from the way that life is perceived and experienced. This is especially so in the realm of photography, an instrument used to document reality. Navigation is sought in the shadow of The Uncanny Valley. Pareidolia, projection, transference are all common psychological and phenomenological responses to this work.
[further down the rabbit hole…]
A physically constructed reality, photographed and made a tangible image, becomes subject to mentally constructed realities. This still life tableaux utopian/dystopian maquette complete with mannequin surrogates become puppets to ones own content. Narratives and meta-narratives are co-authored and adopted by each spectator. The "realness" of these photographs captured through a camera lens are then perceived through the lens of ones mind. Space, time, place, and actuality become more elusive and irrelevant the more that one chases the rabbit.
Ascension continues to break photographic conventions. Whether through its tableaux constructions, shape of the picture plane, print media, or multiple other aspects, the lines between photography and the future of new media become more and more blurred.