MEDIA ARCHIVE - Selected Press

Publications Featuring Night Journey (selected)

• Pasatiempo - The New Mexican
  Shadow Catcher by Michael Abatemarco

• Adore Noir (Issue 11)
  Night Journey Interview by Chris Kovacs

• Lenscratch
  PhotoNOLA Prize: 2nd Place
  Susan kae Grant: Night Journey by Aline Smithson

• Dallas Modern Luxury
  Stream of Unconsciousness by Steve Carter

• Diffusion Magazine (Vol IV)
  Exploring the Muse by Susan Burnstine

• PhotoVideoEDU
  Featured Educator: Susan kae Grant by Ron Egatz

• Austere Magazine: REM
  She Dreams of Shadows by Garrett Smith

Some Think That in Dreams . . .
Barbara McCandless

For the first Night Journey exhibition, Barbara McCandless, Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, wrote of the work’s elusive psychological character.

“As the figures’ actions and the objects seem to hold some symbolic meaning, they encourage speculation, yet resist traditional psychological interpretation. Instead, the overall impression is experiential, of being in the dream, where images change quickly and fade from memory.”

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Frosted Glass Encounters*
Trudy Wilner Stack

In her essay for the solo exhibition catalog of Night Journey works on paper at Women & Their Work in Austin, Trudy Wilner Stack, Independent Curator, considers the shift from autobiography toward the dream state that shaped the project.

“For an artist who draws heavily on autobiography as a point of departure and inspiration, what intimate realm remains when the events and character of her life have already been extensively mined? … In the case of Susan kae Grant, it is to the dream state, to the wild rides of sleep where the imagined and the real collide without a compass.”

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A Photographerʼs Interpretation of Her Sleep Laboratory Dreams
John Herman

Writing in conjunction with the Night Journey exhibition presented on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of REM sleep, sleep scientist Dr. John Herman examines and contemplates the relationship between art and science.

”Grant has created an artistic interpretation of REM sleep dreaming that is faithful to the properties of dreams that were simultaneously emerging from sleep laboratory studies: the desaturated appearance, the indistinct, ethereal properties of seemingly familiar objects, and the strong narrative quality.”

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