In times of crisis, we crave an escape, both literally and metaphorically. The truth in our reality begins to blur the more we scroll through twitter or watch the news. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish what is going on, leaving us trapped in a spin cycle of anxiety. 

The focus on this body of work is to create photographs that transcend space and time in order to create a new haven for the mind to wander into. Burden of Dreams isn’t about telling a specific story to viewers, but about using visual language to tap into the viewers’ subconscious.

This ongoing project explores Micaela McLucas’ experimentation with photography, enchantment with color, and sensitivity to the modern world around her. 
 
In this series, explorations into the sublime are informed by compositions and color, created through experimentation both with the camera and digitally. McLucas explores the oversaturated nature of contemporary photography and taking straight images into scenes that become manipulated and otherworldly. The images vary between subjects and techniques, but come into a visual understanding, reflecting the visually consumerist addiction we have acquired in the way we now interpret the world around us. 
 
Photographs are not read, rather, they are experienced. They are open to multiple meanings, which are derived from the experience of consumption, which may involve a host of emotional and psychological responses, not just “intellectual” ones. Each site specific exhibition is a renegotiation of ideas and subjects, engaging the viewer to derive their own interpretation of what is in front of them. 

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