Fulbright Recipient, photographer, Ryan Widger uses traditional darkroom techniques combined with modern digital ones to create evocative images. Ryan spent 2006-2007 in Sweden to experience the prolonged periods of darkness and light that the country undergoes. In this place of extremes Widger found inspiration for this project: “It is never night. It is never day. Nor is it the oppositions pitted against each other. It is the gray area where the transformation from one psychological state to another is made.” Widger’s works are like Rorschach tests, his photographs do not give the viewer a definitive answer rather they allow the viewer to project their own psychoses and experiences onto the works to determine the narrative. “When visual information is hindered we are forced to fill in the gaps of what is unseen with our own psychological projections. By creating my own iconography, by mixing the familiar with the uncertain, I attempt to address this psychological dusk of the uncanny. It is the temporality of those seconds, the splitting of absolutes that excites me.”