Picasso once said, "Everything you can imagine is real." That is to say, within each of us are boundless universes to explore and endless narratives to unravel, all as real as the blood pulsing through our veins or the shape of these words. The bodies of our primitive ancestors dissolved back to earth long ago, and yet, the images they left behind live on, like lighthouses broadcasting facsimiles of their spirit for the ages. Born of biology, encapsulated by information and transcending mortality, perhaps it is the dreams we bring forth into this world that are most important. As each new generation discovers our images, they take on new lives, new meaning, new souls. The question then becomes: which is the cartoon, the bison or the drawing of the bison?

Seamus Liam O'Brien and Ira Marcks, the artists in the exhibition Fictively Fact, spend all their time inside this fictionally real paradox. They bring forth from their endless imaginations all matter of realities for this world to navigate and inherit. From the unconscious images we experience as we spin at the circus, to books designed exclusively to chronicle our daydreams, O'Brien and Marcks are lifelong cosmonauts into the space outside of space. The place from which we all came from, but lost, as matter entangles thought and souls become obsessed with time.