Unlike work I’ve made before, “Dreams and Other Things” is a confluence of photographs, filters, colors, drawings, and my imagination. These landscapes have become places of refuge - dreamy escapes to which I can retreat from the sadness, anxiety, divisiveness, and uncertainty that began permeating our daily lives in 2016.

By manipulating them, something I’ve never done with my photographs before, I feel as if I have more control over what’s happening around me. They also serve to remind me it's critical to maintain a sense of hope, which, as defined by human rights activist Desmond Tutu, is simply “the ability to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”