A  dream is an internal construct, like a memory.  It is hardly the reality, but capable of becoming a catalyst towards action, a vision to resolve a challenge or problem, or a reflection of our self and culture.  The project Invisible Cities: Capri is homage to the themes in Italo Calvino's work.  The hook is a non-place, the Capri the artist has imagined with the aid of black and white photography of Umberto D'Aniello, the artist grandmother's stories of her life in a Neapolitan family, and an unconscious desire to swim on the mythic island of the sirens.  The question of authenticity should immediately become suspect.  The paintings were not made with the true experience of Capri.  The artist plays with simulacra, a copy without an original, and hyper reality, a copy of a copy, which transforms the authentic into a new sort of reality.  What one waits for instead is the focus of the project.  The work is meant to raise questions in the audience regarding reality versus perceptual illusion and expectations.  When one looks, does he delight in his own personal memories, fears, and desires, and interpret the dream? What is the interest or parallel? Does he linger in the void, just to give pause like a traveler who waits in transit?  The romanticized location of Capri is an illusion.  If one travels to a location, he casts himself upon it and must create the experience.  The objective in the end is a balance between the two, a meeting of expectations and what exists.   -Sarah Boyle 2010