Have you ever caught a glimpse of something fleeting in the corner of your eye when out walking in the woods, or along a beach, or in an old building? And then, you turn quickly, trying to capture the image of the thing in your true range of vision, but, that something is gone? Yet, the feeling of having seen something remains and may even linger in the edges of the imagination, planting seeds of
fear and fantasy. This has happened to all of us at one time or another. This has happened to me more times than I can count. I knew there was something there, but I couldn’t see it, couldn’t capture it. So, I set out to devise a way to see what it was that was there toying with the edges of my vision. First, I started using mirrors. I affixed them to the edges of my glasses and created a sort of rear viewing apparatus in the hopes of using the reflective properties of the mirror to eliminate the need to turn my head. That did not work. All it did was provide more peripheries and enhanced the mocking of me by the entities dancing at the edges of my vision. The second thing I tried was using a camera to set the fleeting creatures in the physicality of film. I had rigged up an elaborate contrivance of wires and cameras on a harness I could wear while walking the woods. I wasted a lot of film in those days and never did acquire a definitive image of my elusive quarry. Don’t get me wrong; I did see what I knew were images of the little beasties blurred at the edges of my pictures, but I needed better. I became obsessed. I may have built and tested at least a dozen new devices in that duration of my obsession. But it wasn’t until the end of the 13th Bak’Tun that I realized the epiphany that became my breakthrough. I had until then been working only in the 2nd and 3rd dimensions. I was trying to contain things that were not always contained within the limits of three dimensions. This was the insight that I had needed. This was the insight that advanced my work to where it is today. By folding the dimensions of Time and Space using a device of my own design, I have been able to capture clear images of the multidimensional entities that pervade the periphery of our vision every day. These creatures are ever present, ever watchful, and never seen - until now. Some of them are well-formed and beautiful – their features fair. Others may be hard to look at and disturbing – for they did not wish to be seen. They are the Spirits of the Natural World. They are now here for you to see.