Fantasy Life is a collection of digital collages inspired by my favorite music and the masters of surrealism. This project is an exercise in visualizing a life beyond the boundaries of my everyday reality. Each work is an inside joke, and a self-portrait layered with memory, aspiration, and absurdity. Each part of these collages is a piece from real life, landscapes from the coast, flowers from my neighborhood, and trips to the beach. I count many icons among my creative influences including Madonna, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Dali, Martin Parr, and David LaChappelle. Fashion, TV, Hollywood, pop culture, and celebrity obsession are a few of my favorite things, and they seep in through the cracks of these images. One of my many long time one liners start with “In my next life...” the irony is that I think I might be living my next life now. In my mind, every idea could be shinier, brighter, in higher contrast, all parts of a smoke and mirrors illusion. This book is a small slice of the glittering spectacle of my imagination. All inputs are filtered through my technicolor dreamland and come out the other side with a platinum blonde, patent leather facade. Welcome to my world.