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"With a background in psychology, design, and photography, I make photographic images combining portraiture with dreamed landscapes and the natural world. As my work creates juxtapositions in time, it also re-imagines relationships of scale and physical possibility. My images create an inclusiveness that is wistful yet ironic. Children and adults, anonymous and often forgotten, appear as honored guests. Although my images violate the laws of physics, they honor the interdependence and connections of humanity with the animals, insects, and plants, which populate the natural world. My collaged images often begin with tintype portraits of anonymous mid-19th c. Americans. In isolating the figures from their studio backdrops, I dissolve the traditional boundaries of time and place. I hope to suggest the connection of humble portraiture to contemporary technology, children to the cosmos, humanity to the natural world, and the spiritual to the physical. My work draws inspiration not only from 19th c. photography but chiefly from the 20th c. artists who used color, visual narratives and symbolism to contemplate the human condition: the juxtaposed assemblages of Joseph Cornell, the paintings of Rene Magritte, and the poetry and photography of Duane Michals. " - Fran Forman Fran is represented by Commercial Street: 508.349.9451
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