(...) Sarah-Mace Dennis challenges the concept of time as being fixed or finite. She manipultes her images, in the manner of traditional spectral photography (fake photos of ghosts or disturbing phenomenon) to show the past and present in one image.

Ofen using multiple images of herself in her work, Dennis creates a narrative of overlapping personal lives, moments occuring simultaneoulsy, suggesting that reality is more complex and multilayerd than we might think.

Her Houdini series uses images of cells, landscapes and her own falling figure, fuelled by a desire to photograph empty rooms and spaces.

'Sometimes the energy that seems to circulate in these empty spaces carries a presence that's beyond comprehension,' she says.

'The series began with the shot of a cell at Fort Lytton in Brisbane. For me the cell has been about containment, confinement, of going nowhere, but being at Fort Lytton made me realise that it's also about hiding.'

The haunting landscape shot was taken of the willow trees and horizon on a propety in Glen Innes.

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'I like exploring the idea that time is parallel rather than linear,' Dennis says

'So perhaps there aren't really ghosts, just people still alive in other rooms, in other pieces of time'

Judy Anderson from her article 'Images of life and death' The Weekend Bulletin: Paradise. October 1-2, 2005.