The photographs that comprise Imaginary Views originated with images of dollhouse miniatures—doors, staircases, and windows—set against examples of Southern vernacular architecture. These play objects inhabit spaces of presumed safety, allowing the viewer’s imagination to unfold freely. The work invites the viewer to imagine a world reduced to one-twelfth the scale of our own, in which a staircase landing might become a tree-lined avenue.

The images engage with themes of place, belonging, refuge, escape, and fantasy. The spaces they evoke function as reveries: imagined sites that never existed, yet are imbued with nostalgia and a quiet wistfulness for what never was. These are illusions that gesture toward reality, sustained by the desire to become real even as they remain unattainable.

As the project has evolved, the imagery has expanded beyond the domestic sphere to incorporate diorama elements such as classical ruins. These later works situate the miniatures within natural landscapes and other larger built environments.