Photomanipulation nominee

All of my work starts as a dream, then a sketch, followed by the use of photography for the final art piece.
"Contraption" was a vision I had, early morning, November 14th. Sometimes I search for the meaning of my work after I have created it, in Scripture. Sometimes I'm lucky and find some correlation in the text.
"Then I looked up - and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth." Zechariah 5:9

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