Taos [sur]Realism

The ability to layer images and create a dreamscape from unrelated scenes opened a world of new creative possibilities for me, and while double exposures are typically made in the camera, I decided to make my first effort with this art form in the darkroom.  In this series of silver-gelatin photographs, I have taken elements of the landscape, architectural forms, and the human body and created double images by overlapping two negatives in my enlarger.   In contrast to the realism of traditional photographs, I have created an surreal landscape in which relationships of elements are outside the boundaries of the normal: Taos [sur]Realism.