ABSTRACT
Jones's choice of adopting the visual iconography of repeatable provable fact to document a sleeping dog and dying bug expands the context of both scientific and psychological endeavor. In so doing, she is arguably placing love and suffering within a quantifiable context as well as inviting a dialogue between the old enemies of fact versus conjecture and science versus spirituality. Sleep is still a state being researched and is not fully understood, but there is no doubt that people all need it to survive and thrive. Even more magical is dreaming. While a nightmare technically describes an unpleasant dream, it would seem that most nightmares are experienced awake. When looking at time-lapse photography, time becomes an overt element. It informs each and every frame. The time taken to compose, to adjust depth of field or to adjust shutter speed is preset; and it constructs its own electromechanical rhythm. The preordained intervals may last for a small eternity for the beetle.
