Original photograph by German artist Stefanie Schneider (*1968) Days of Heaven IX - 2005 part of the 29 Palms, CA project 18 x 22 cm, Edition 13/100. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory 8080. Not mounted. The last image shows the complete piece. Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven storylines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.