My last day in the darkroom left me feeling dark and gloomy, which is exactly what my prints became.

The contact negative was made from 3 different cameras, over a 3 year period, montaged together to make the prints.

The structure in the background ended up too dark, making the quality of the print worthless – mirroring my mood.

I decided to take a grade #80 sandpaper and scrap into the fibers of the photo paper,

to see if there was any hope of finding some light in and on the dark building structures in the background.

As I started sandpapering the prints, each background structure assumed a new life and then began to dissolve,

and it became clear that in these photos, as in our lives, the worlds of darkness and of light were just temporary metaphors.

The building structures hadn’t changed in essence, and soon they – the physical world – began to disappear.

Alice was indeed alone in Wonderland.