Sam Downey

Artist Statement: For my surreal narrative series, I decided to focus on dreams and the unconscious feelings that our dreams show us. To accomplish this, I wanted to convey juxtaposition of conscious thought and unconscious thought through the vague visuals and sense of eeriness in the dreams. I came up with this by remembering a dreaming unit in a past psychology class which taught me a lot about dreams. Since dreams are often vague and strange when put in context, I figured that this theme would be best portrayed in a surreal narrative series. Throughout shooting these images, I have been able to use different objects to obscure views, and abstract light naturally to make the dreamlike qualities more a part of the shooting process and the final images.