The Invisible Realm's Desert Inn Mirage (2022, Mixed Media Collage) reimagines the iconography of mid-century leisure through a surreal, prismatic lens. The scene, set at the famed Desert Inn poolside, initially evokes the polished nostalgia of a vintage postcard: sunbathers recline, swimmers prepare to dive, and the atmosphere radiates carefree glamour. Yet, this familiar tableau is disrupted by cascading vertical bands of color—like spectral curtains—that fracture the image into a kaleidoscopic mirage.

The stripes act as both barrier and portal, obscuring and revealing in equal measure, transforming the poolside scene into something dreamlike and untethered. Their palette, drawn from both natural and synthetic hues, suggests a dialogue between reality and illusion, memory and invention. The figures become suspended in this altered space, part of a shifting narrative that resists fixed interpretation.

Desert Inn Mirage encapsulates the ethos of The Invisible Realm: to distort and reframe collective memory, challenging the viewer to see familiar images anew. It is an exploration of glamour not as a fixed ideal but as a fleeting vision—transient, refracted, and always just beyond reach.