"The objective world surrounding us is not the only one possible." Paul Klee
Quaint antique carriages and souped-up sedans. Colossal letters and oversized rocking horses. Fluttering mobile sculptures and tattered sofas. Silhouettes of human forms stumbling through driving wind and swirling dust. Everything has lost its grounding and is floating in a sea of infinite white—time, space, and identity have dissolved completely. Are these bizarre scenes and objects real? Or are they nothing but figments of imagination, paradoxical chimeras? Chinese photographer Peikwen Cheng left the lights of the big American cities behind him and travelled deep into Black Rock Desert to document surreal daydreams and those who conceived them. Cheng’s black-and-white photographs are evocative of epic film sequences—familiar yet disturbing, clear yet nebulous.
