Please complete our reader survey . The Bayly's 'Making it Real' puzzles viewers with the use of twisted imagery and detail. Instead of focusing on realistic images, the prints on exhibit prey on the visitor's imagination and distort the truth. The display, housed in the museum's Main and Octagonal galleries, includes a fascinating diversity of photographic prints that confronts visitors with varying shapes, textures and colors immediately upon entering the gallery.
Normalcy ends and the artist's imagination takes over.
Skoglund covers the partygoers and the room around them in what appears to be cheese doodles. While the large print does not necessarily provoke the most thought, it remains interesting simply because its people are made out of snack food. Peter Garfield's pictures, however, are more perplexing. The grainy quality of the color picture makes it seems like a tabloid UFO picture, but its content goes way beyond being outrageous. The piece asks questions, but does not offer answers.