Kristen Sard's slippery images peek into a parallel dimension and entice observers to sit and stay awhile. Are these radiant bodies swimming in gelatin pools below or hovering above water as we hold our breaths? Sard welcomes the clear and composed to melt into her fanciful realm where it is better to conceal than reveal. Like potographic Rorschach tests, her images encourage us to exercise our interpretive liberties, exposing unique and wondrously intimate details.

Sard is the mistress of ceremonies in her private cabaret, the photograph merely a still recording of the theater playing before her. Coolly aware of the dramatic and sensual impact of her work, the artist passionately maintains the sacred space within her own creative process. The comfort and confidence of Sard's models is the adhesive between the organic splendor of the human nude and the ethereal innocence of fantasy. Each photograph then becomes a world not unto itself, but a glimpse into the delicate liquid limbo that gels fantasy and reality. This is the world between worlds, ephemeral and morphing, where anything is possible. Explains Sard: "These are images of one discovering one's own sexual power, one's sexual identity .. understanding one's self sexually for the first time."

-- Jordan Alexander, Juxtapoz