"I have always been amazed at the way people lend so much more credence and attach so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams. Man is above all the plaything of his memory."--André Breton

"The darkness rustles with sketches; ghosts of memories. We are lucky for this. Some say ghosts are the memories of loved ones or even ourselves. Apparitions are very much alive, existing in a liminal space of love and memory." --GAF

“Ghosts” is made from recycled and repurposed materials in the Public Domain, or material released under a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain license.

"Ghosts" ― Music and video by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.
Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.

'Alone Together' is a kaleidoscopic collage from found images and borrowed memories.

I find such a warmth and mystery in old black and white film footage; dreams we borrow and share in a surreal sort of time/space travel. Alone together, together alone.―Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

"Alone Together" is made from found materials and music in the Public Domain, or released under a Creative Commons CC0 license.

“Alone Together," by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles)
Nothing's impossible!”
― from Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

This enigmatic abstract perhaps represents a variety of types of cul-de-sacs or quandaries; seemingly irresolvable political conflicts, for example. There is only one way out of a cul-de-sac- one must carefully back out.

A collage of film leader countdowns and video glitches form a semi-structuralist exploration of the liminal space between analog film grain and digital glitch.

“cul-de-sac” is created from images and sounds in the Public Domain, or material released under a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain license.

“cul-de-sac," by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.

A self portrait in the tradition of other bisexual surrealist artists such as Maya Deren, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Anaïs Nin, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, David Bowie, Bessie Smith, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, and Toyen (Marie Čermínová).

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”―Anaïs Nin

"Funny. I did not set out to make a self portrait. 'Self Portrait' is an experiment in surreal automatism; with my subconscious and chance as co-authors. A collage resulted from this experiment: a 'found image as self' morphs into multiple selves who walk away from the camera to meet yet more aspects of the self, travelling through alternate times and places. Use of a 'found' female figure - who never looks at the camera - disrupts norms of traditional patriarchal self portraiture.

I tend to think that most works of art, even those that don't announce themselves as such, are 'self portraits' at some level. After all, as Anaïs Nin said, 'We don't see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are.' I am fascinated by the myriad representations of the self as Other and the Other as self (or selves); particularly in the work of women artists and other bisexual artists."―Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

"Self Portrait"―Music and video by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

Other found abstracted self portraits:
"The Passenger" vimeo.com/205097372
"Standing Up" vimeo.com/204817552
"Smile / Wave" vimeo.com/224574518

For more, see my portfolio at

"Self Portrait"―Music and video by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

“Self Portrait” is made in part from recycled images in the Public Domain, or material released under a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain license. Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.

"Structuralism meets romanticism,'Hot Rod Auto Races' gently recalls Bruce Baillie's poetic joie d'esprit, 'All My Life' (1966); a classic experimental film.

I found this clip and first planned on using it in a collage or an abstract. Slowed down considerably, I found it disarming and poetic, so I decided not to abstract it further. While I love the grain and I love the scratches and aesthetic 'look' of black and white film from a lost era; most of all I am enchanted by the facial gestures and body language of the two boys as they go from forlorn and defeated to relieved and jubilant in such a relatively brief time.

It demonstrates that after the darkest time always comes the sweetest joy."―Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

With many thanks for all the inspiration to Bruce Baillie and the many inspirational avant garde & experimental filmmakers many of who create work from found footage.

"Hot Rod Auto Races" is a joie d'esprit made from found materials and music in the Public Domain, or released under a Creative Commons CC0 license.

Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.