Each painting is created in response to a written description of a place of personal significance, shared by a collaborator yet unknown to the artist. Kate translates these descriptions into Imagined Realities, and then distorts the original image using various processes to create a new ‘space’.

She uses processes such as paper folding, making models or projections, or by veiling or fragmentation, to express the ambiguity of the text and the writer’s position and the unknown qualities beyond what is described.

The work is a metaphor for understanding text, as the artist moves back and forth until a new space is revealed. She explores both how we piece together images from words, and the passing of time as our memories mix, overlap and fade.

See the original Imagined Realities paintings.