"My work was beginning to make its first shift about a year after surgery. I had been expressing myself with biologically inspired abstractions chronicling this first year as my wounds were healing and bone growing and hardening. As I continued to create these internalized biologically inspired abstractions, a stray pregnant poodle came into our lives and had 6 puppies. These 6 creatures would soon be of such profound inspiration to me that they changed the direction of my art. The puppies playing in the yard, soaring through the air as they jumped and played, being in the moment with unbounded happiness was such a breath of fresh air that it blew new life into my creativity. Their unconditional love was just the medicine I didn’t know I needed. My work began to venture into the terrain of surrealism as I conjured up creatures of my imagination I call WHIMSIES; stand-ins for the puppies. I imagined them as carefree, unencumbered beings free of the constraints of gravity. They move freely in ways that I’m not able to, often flying and just as the puppies inspired me, they would express motion, speed and the immediacy of being in the moment. Another new direction I was experimenting with was using black and white photographs I had taken and drawing on top of them. But first the back story of these photographs. I was studying architecture at Pratt Institute and I took elective courses in photography. I took hundreds of black and white photographs in New York City. The photograph in Sunday in the Park with Whimsies was taken in 1985 on a Sunday morning in Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan. In the 1980s the park was inhabited by a wide demographic cross section of society and on Sundays, the park had a magical sense of the best of humanity, with people from all stripes enjoying themselves and getting along. This picture captures that feeling and my Whimsies join in the fun."

- Andrew Reach

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