Arlene writes:
"Jacob's Ladder" is one of a series titled The Virtual Reality of Ideas, from Plato's description of an idea as an entity existing in space, arriving through the agency of angels, and taking form according to our perceptions. In the first images, ideas are represented by energetic black marks. Later, the marks become lines, as if to portray dreams. Perhaps Jacob's angel and ladder looked something like this.

Arlene Nesbitt grew up on the Canadian prairies. Painting, her first love, developed while working for a BA in art and psychology in the United States. After teaching elementary school art, she worked as an art therapist in Britain. Her interest in photography began while living on the tiny island of Iona in the Hebrides. The main theme was archetypal human forms revealed in close-ups of unusual rock formations. Her work was shown on the islands and in Glasgow. Returning to Canada, she learned Photoshop and began to work with layers of photographs, monoprints, rubbings, etc. She creates visual essays with a series of images to develop an idea. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows on Vancouver Island and the Mainland. She can be reached via email at arlene@amnart.ca, or through her website at www.amnart.ca.