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At its most basic photography is a map of light, three-dimensional space translated via light and shadow into a two dimensional realm. In this series of works, I probe the gap between two and three dimensions, asking what can be lost and found in translation. Emphasizing the inherent truth that the camera sees differently than the human eye, and that combination of the camera eye and human eye challenge each other when both views are present simultaneously. The work is made not only of the space in which it exists, but also relies on the way our minds and eyes see and understand the combination of image and object in space. I am interested in the way images have the potential to play with illusion and perception. They can be experiential, existing as fixed moments in time space and perspective and then re-integrated into the world to be viewed The pieces are composite realities constructed to play with what we understand to be factual. A printed photograph is simultaneously a tangible object and representation; it is unique in this duality. Each work in the series is an elaborate visual puzzle, comprised of image and object, or image and site. Creating hybrid works that are materially ambivalent.