Fever Dream shines a light on the anxieties of living through a crisis. Using staged cinematic photography, the image features odd props and setting to convey the eclectic anxieties of a dream-like state that reflects the traumas of real life.

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In the photograph, the subject is framed through a vignette, forcing the viewer to see only what is uncovered through light. The subject is exposed, caught in this fleeting moment of confusion, a decisive moment that the lens makes possible. The camera captures the gaze of the subject right at that threshold moment where this dream-like scenario becomes disrupted by reality, allowing the unseen to be seen.

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Fever Dream is inspired by my own fever-induced dreams while ill during a time of crisis within my own life. While the dreams were often ridiculous, disorienting, and humorous, they spoke to much larger issues of displacement and panic in my life. Fever Dream longs to understand the anxieties of the real world through the hazy and eclectic anxieties of the dream world.