The Invisible Realm, Show Boat (2022, Mixed Media Collage) takes the nostalgic glamour of vintage Americana and transforms it into a shimmering mirage of fractured memory. The composition features the iconic Showboat casino and its surrounding poolside scene—figures lounging, swimming, and socializing in an atmosphere of leisure and spectacle. Yet this familiar image is veiled by cascading vertical bands of color that slice through the scene, creating a rhythm of interruption and concealment.

The stripes—ranging from warm reds and ochres to cool aquas and silvers—act as a spectral filter, transforming the postcard-perfect view into something otherworldly. The Showboat’s signage and architecture emerge intermittently, only partially visible through the chromatic veil, as though the memory of the place itself is being refracted and distorted through time.

With Show Boat, The Invisible Realm reconfigures mid-century optimism and resort culture into an altered reality, one that blurs the line between documentary and dream. The work speaks to the fragility of collective memory, where moments of leisure and spectacle dissolve into abstraction, leaving behind only fragments—bright, beautiful, and elusive.