What if Weekends - 52 Week Challenge

First it was a project, then it was a book, and I said "what if... there's an exhibit?”. And there was, and here’s just a sampling of the photo illusions that were a part of my 52 week photo project, book and exhibit called 'What if Weekends'.


What is a What if Weekend you may well ask. What if Weekends started in April of 2012 as a 52 week photo illusionism project that would wrap up with a book of all the illusions. Photo illusionism is a term I use in my work to convey the idea that what I create, though based in the world of photography, is not completely real. The What if Weekends project was to create an illusion with nothing but real photographs merged and manipulated in a way to create something that you couldn’t possibly photograph. The theme for all 52 photo illusions was “What if…?”. What if… you could do anything, be anyone, or go anywhere? What if you had a twin, or you could clone yourself, or… what if… you did have a Super Power? What if… anything were possible? I worked with friends and friends of friends to create these illusions, most of which worked out as planned, and some went off the rails to create something quite unexpected.

After the project was complete I created an illusion of my own, the one you see on the cover of the book... What if... there's an exhibit? What if Weekends: the exhibit and book launch was on October 24th and 25th, 2014.