Dayna Wood

Artist Statement

As a psychotherapist specializing in the expressive arts, I have spent the past few decades fascinated by the meanings associated with archetypes. These deeply symbolic universal forms derived from the collective unconscious, have fascinated humans for millennia - evident in all great myths and fairytales.

In my work as an artist, however, I seek to go beyond the unconscious and endeavor to pierce the veil of the supra-conscious - the level of awareness that surpasses the duality of the material world and taps into the consciousness behind reality.

A dialogue opens between the conscious and unconscious, psyche and matter, and it is here that an expansion happens - uniting the spectral and material. It's here that we begin to find something elemental, just on the other side of "real" that takes on facets of the hyperreal.

So, come along with me into a fairy tale; one not of words but of images. Where you may discover something previously unknown and return changed somehow; and, always there is the invitation to awaken - not from the dream, but within it.

Biography

Awards, Online Exhibits & Group Shows

Disenfranchised Geodome. 2022. Files and Film 8. Gallery 221 @ HCC Dale Mabry, Tampa, Fl.

Yield of Diminishing Returns. 2021. Files and Film Non·sen·si·cal' Absurd Photography Pop-up (by invitation). St, Petersburg, FL.

Bearable Heaviness of Non-Being & Refractions in Mixed Milieu. 2020. Files and Film Juried
Photographic Art Show. St. Petersburg, FL.

Sideshow Portico. 2019. Files and Film Juried Photographic Art Show. MIZE Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL.

Pythagorean Dials. 2017. Analogue & Alternative Process Photography Show. Davidson Fine Art and Zebra Color, St. Petersburg, FL.

Pythagorean Dials & Sideshow Portico. 2017 Photography Issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine (p. 40 & 41 two full pages, Issue 32).

Color Collection #7: Jaundice Recherché. 2013 Landscapes Issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine (p. 19 full page, Issue 14). Juror Kevin Stewart-Magee. Honorable Mention.

2014 The Art Quench Gallery International Juried "A New Beginning" Art Competition. Special Recognition.

Untitled 1. 2013 Photography Issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine (p. 65, Issue 10). Juror Jaydee Dizon.

Spectral City. 2013 The Art Quench Gallery International Juried "Haunted" Art Competition. Special Recognition.

Whale Bones & Untitled 1. 2012. International Masters of Photography. Artavita Contest. Winners Circle.

Fantasy 2. 2011 International Fantasy Art Contest. Artist Portfolio Magazine. Juror Carl Baratta (p. 42 full page, Issue 4). 3rd place winner.

Hope, Remix. NHPCO 2011 Creative Arts Contest. Nature/abstract Category. Honorable Mention.

Exhibition History (CV)