Natalie Wood
What if a building could dream? What would it look like?
My work is a fusion of things I would like to see, things I wish I could find in reality, and a visual scrapbook of places I’ve been. I strive to give forgotten places a new life and new stories. I grew up working for a portrait photographer in Las Vegas, NV. As a female photographer, and one who wasn’t really interested in photographing people, I used to feel trapped by the every changing set of standards other people dictated to me. I also felt more inspired and drawn to surrealist imagery and wondered how I could use photography to tell dream-like stories. After spending some time looking through the work of Louviere and Vanessa and Joel-Peter Witkin, I realized that the only true limits were ones I was setting on myself. I began traveling the world to visit places and then returning to Oregon to transform them into unique hybrids of photography and collage. Each image I produce contains real photographs I have captured, blended into dreamscapes and memories. It is my hope that those who view my work can find their own connection between dreaming and waking, desire and memory, and dark and light.
