In Dreamfields, Julie Wolfe both physically and figuratively deconstructs her own book from 2019 to superimpose images that probe the power of the subconscious at a new level of intensity and unrest.

Experimental test prints became a vital component in the process of discovery. This deeply inventive investigation depends on the “double exposure” of screen printing to reveal vivid, uncanny vignettes recalling our wildest dreams and our strangest visions. The experiences and stressors from waking life are exaggerated and distorted to imply ways the external world is reflected by the internal one. Imagined narratives are further transformed by this palimpsestic process: the ambiguity of the original book approaches absurdity as the already otherworldly pages take on a more hallucinatory tone. Nonetheless, the work does not attempt to deconstruct dream logic but instead celebrates its creative and nonsensical qualities. Wolfe honors the surreal cinema of our subconscious as an endless source of intrigue while we plot to reimagine and rebuild our collective existence. - Julie Wolfe