Make Believe is a collection often large-scale inkjet prints developed at very high resolutions-the largest images each containing over 230 million pixels-created primarily using digital tools: a computer, scanner, printer and Adobe Photoshop.

The project began as a visual meditation on the fables, television shows, movies, comic books, toys, breakfast cereals and candy from my memories of childhood. Working with bright, highly-saturated colors and populating the work with ghosts, aliens, cowboys, robots, mummies and ninjas, I used the icons and archetypes of youthful fantasy to map my childhood emotional and spiritual understanding of self and the world.

While I do still strongly associate this work with my childhood, it also became a vehicle for me to explore how I now, as an adult, respond to the thoughts, feelings and memories associated with these images. I can now understand the deep and meaningful relationship I once had with the world of make-believe from a broader, more nuanced perspective. I used that understanding to focus the work thematically on areas of the human experience-morality, fear, mortality and spirituality-to which I now have a greater awareness and more sophisticated understanding than was possible as a child.