Sleeping within reach of a tape recorder has allowed me to harvest dream images soon after they occur. Upon awakening I record the contents of my dreams. After several years I've developed a library of these taped images and from them I have learned about the language and nature of the subconscious. These intriguing images from within form the core subject of my art and it is here that my passions lie .

The animation technique that I employ in this work retreats down the evolutionary tree of image-making creating an offshoot of a technology developed in the mid-19th century. This technique is the ancestor of current film and video and employs the scientific principle of the persistence of vision. Changing images are presented in rapid succession creating the illusion of movement. With this technique I am able to combine the infinite perspective available in three dimensions with the fourth dimension of time. The strobe light allows me to animate three-dimensional objects in real time allowing the viewer to share the same physical space with the animated sequence. While ideally suited to the realization of subconscious imagery, animation allows great freedom of expression as well as a platform to investigate the nature of perception. My goal is not simple reproduction as in television. Nothing is hidden in the presentation of these works. The exposed method of delivery enhances the dream reality of the installation.

One of the great myths of recent history is the dominance of rational thought. The human desire for the safety of order has in the last two centuries elevated rational thinking to the level of religion, a security blanket for a confused and frightened world. Our world, viewed from any one angle is incomplete and when viewed from all angles is incoherent. No single perspective takes into account the infinite variation of our experience. Our sciences comfort us somewhat with their posture of certainty and a vast array of practical knowledge but are plagued with uncertainties. In Jungian psychology, dreams are a safety valve of the psyche, venting a primordial distrust of human constructs and forming a road map into our deepest nature. Human needs are based on a long evolutionary past that cannot be met by reason alone.

Technology is just such a reasoned path subject to our mistrust. ICC has provided me with the opportunity to investigate the subconscious response to the vortex of modern telecommunications. For those fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be in its path, telecommunications promise greater communication and accessibility. At the same time there is a risk of dependency and the loss of intimacy, privacy, and identity.

My use of dream imagery is an attempt to confront the viewer physically with these tell-tale images. My task is to choose universal themes that each viewer can apply individually to their own experience. The power of sharing the same space with these three-dimensional images lies partially in witnessing your own act of interpretation. The rapidly changing images are knit together into a coherent (or incoherent, as the case may be) whole, illustrating the act of self-definition inherent in perception and cognition. Our minds have an overwhelming desire for order. We create the order. It is the nature of that order that defines us as human beings. Order, however, is not what I offer you. Instead, I offer a three-dimensional window into the domain of the unconscious where emotions run wild and self-deception is an oxymoron.