Last Day at AWOL Gallery

Come by AWOL Gallery until 6pm today for your last chance to see the show before it comes down.

Three more days!

Daydreams&Nightmares will be up at AWOL Gallery for three more days.

Friday, July23rd, 12pm - 8pm Extended hours

Saturday, July 24th, 12pm - 8pm Extended hours

Sunday, July 25th, 1pm - 5pm

Minna Loponen
Daydreams&Nightmares
AWOL Gallery
July 15 - 25, 2010
76 Ossington Ave

The Reception!

Daydreams&Nightmares at AWOL Gallery

Minna Loponen

Daydreams&Nightmares

AWOL Gallery

July 15 - 25, 2010

76 Ossington Ave

Thurs - Sat, 12 - 6pm

Sun, 1 - 5pm

Like a fragment of a dream, this series of photomontages capture a brief moment of a story. Strange creatures existing in familiar environments.

When I began this series, I would skim through endless stacks of magazines. Flipping past page after page, until suddenly, something would catch my attention and make me pause. A shape or texture would draw me in, and my mind would start transforming the original object into something new.

Once this element was selected, I required an environment for the creature to grow. The background became incredibly important in defining the mood of the piece, and how the transformation would unfold...

Once each image was complete, I would have the original scanned on a flatbed scanner, and then digitally enlarged. The pieces are a direct enlargement of the originals, and have not been processed further on the computer.

These are offset by the smaller original pieces that have been included in the show, which demonstrate the cut and paste element of the work.