To the memory of my teacher, Rob Gooblar

The images which make "fragments... dreams..." are drawn from a personal photographic journal documenting small intimate moments in my life. Many are blurred, as one might cast an eye about on a lazy afternoon. Some are enigmatic, like a scribbling in the corner of a page, while others are an open page. They talk about friendship and travels, a walk in the park, joyful encounters and unfounded fears. But they also reach beyond the first layer of reality, inviting the viewer to connect with the richness of his imagination and creative world.

These captured moments are non-linear -- a gazing of the mind, a stream of memories and juxtapositions. These are moments everyone experiences. They remain just under the surface, ready to emerge unexpectedly or through thoughts associations. They interact with one another in the same way as the unconstrained mind creates streams of images in the quiet of the night, just before the onset of sleep.

My passion for photography dates back to my early years as a child in the mid-1950's. The passion never died and several years ago, the vagaries of life allowed me to come back to the medium as a full-time creative activity. I have since relentlessly explored its possibilities.

In search for the soft beauty of ancient photographs, I began to forego modern high-tech lenses and turned to the softer lenses of vintage cameras. Eventually, I dispensed from the lens altogether, in favour of a pinhole -- the most simple image formation device.

The blur arising from deliberately handholding the camera during multi-second exposures helps me create a feeling of timelessness and surrealism. Printing the negative on silver chlorobromide emulsions processed in lithographer developer magnifies the structure of the grain -- akin to the pointillist painters of the late XIXth century. It also provides a richness of colours far superior to standard toning procedures. Double-weight fibre paper adds a strong tactile quality to the final print.

Over time, my work has moved towards an impressionistic kind of imagery, somewhat reminiscent of pictorialism but conceptually very different. Each roll of film becomes the source of a new experience. Perhaps reflecting my own spiritual evolution, I try to look beyond the immediacy of things and capture the mood and feelings inside me at the time of the photograph.

- Guy Glorieux