Reveries & Other Fantasies: Conjured Architectural Escapes presents idealized architectural miniatures set against Southern vernacular architecture. The images engage themes of place, belonging, refuge, escape, and fantasy. These constructed spaces operate as reveries—visions tinged with nostalgia and a wistful longing for what never was—illusions that aspire toward reality while remaining fundamentally imagined.

The photographs depict inhabited landscapes that are conspicuously devoid of human figures yet marked by their traces. These fictional environments are anchored to a specific and recognizable geography: a romanticized American South. The sense of place lends the images an initial plausibility, grounding the viewer before subtly destabilizing that certainty.

At first glance, the scenes appear believable; the objects are legible and familiar. However, close attention reveals details that undermine this plausibility. Scale, material, and context begin to contradict expectation, introducing a quiet dissonance that unsettles the image. This tension activates a dialogue between presence and absence—between what is suggested and what is withheld.

This investigation extends concerns present in my earlier bodies of work, in which the dichotomy between function and dysfunction was explored through constructed situations, images, and objects. While the aesthetic register of the current work differs, it remains conceptually linked by an ongoing interest in presence and absence and in the friction between function and dysfunction as a generative space for meaning.