Conceptual nominee

"The Writer" was my first installation art piece, conceptually bringing to life my interpretation of what a writer mentally battles . . . deciding which words to use . . . starting over . . . again and again.
"Hemingway" was my complimentary piece to "The Writer" presenting a closer view of the typewriter with the quote "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Except instead of the word bleed, I made it more visual;)

Paxton Maroney’s surreal photography invites the outside world to step inside snapshots of her dreams. For several years, she has woken up from vivid dreams, often in the middle of the night, and drawn the images composed on the backs of her eyelids. At times, she even engages in lucid dreaming throughout the day as she’s “trained her brain” to create new chimera for her portraiture. Then, when she has scouted out the perfect location, she begins reconstructing the scenes of her subliminal imagination.
To Paxton, dreams aren’t so much stories as they are symbolic images that tend to hold deep meaning for the dreamer. But don’t bother asking her what her art means… she’d rather you step inside and find the meaning for yourself.

Link to CV:
http://www.paxtonmaroney.com/#!/page/189547/cv-artist-statement-bio