{"id":802628,"date":"2026-08-04T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802628\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:36:13","slug":"cryptic-photos-by-susan-kae-grant-plumb-the-world-of-dreams-in-night-journey-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802628\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic Photos by Susan kae Grant Plumb the World of Dreams in ‘Night Journey’ \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A house spins out of control in a wind storm, animals loom large in the imaginations of children, and mysterious creatures lurk in the darkness of Susan kae Grant<\/a>\u2019s shadow puppet-like photographs. For more than two decades, the artist has plumbed the mind\u2019s eye, especially what it sees when we sleep. In the early 1990s, she even began collaborating with a researcher in a sleep laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Study and documentation of what she visualized in her own REM cycle led to phrases and vocabulary about what she dreamt that she continues to tap into for her studio work.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming this autumn from MW Editions<\/a>, Grant\u2019s book Night Journey delves into her lifelong fascination with the realm of the unconscious. Silhouetted figures and objects seemingly float across nearly 100 vignettes that are blurry, cryptic, and stretched around the edges as if they originate from somewhere we\u2019re unable to grasp.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThrough arresting black and white tableaux populated by fantastical creatures, animals, and children in hallucinatory settings, these photographs invite us to traverse the strangeness and chaos of breakneck contemporary life, like the dreams that inspired them,\u201d the publisher says.<\/p>\n

See more on the artist\u2019s Instagram<\/a>, and pre-order Night Journey on the MW Editions\u2019 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"a<\/a>Behind-the-scenes in Susan Kae Grant\u2019s studio. Photo \u00a9 Richard Klein<\/p>\n

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