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TOK: I returned to this image as I perused your gallery again, and I wanted to make a serious comment about your work, as a whole.

Tok, you are a Master of Visual Atmosphere. This image transported me out of my body and into my deeper mind where I shared a singular moment with 'you' - out of all time and dimension and context.

Your ART has a visual signature that is instantly identifiable as yours, and I must step into your 'context' to view it, very much like a visual novel. Each image has a luminous quality - that of mystical adventure - of myths and fairy-tale. Your work is curious, full of internal dissonance. This dissonance puts a question to every image. It creates a call and response from image to viewer, and with each image I wonder, "How can this photograph be of my time?" These photographs of yours are not unearthed from old trunks, they are captured in this timeline - my timeline - and that dichotomy creates a cascade of synesthesias. It transports me out of my body and into this oxymoronic universe of a mythic/contemporary reality you have manifested. Instantly I am creating narrative. I am responding to its call. This is a magnificent thing, dear Tok . . .  you project a powerful (and magickal) visual voice, and as such a very unique one, not common and not for public consumption. You require a connoisseur. 

You are one of the few artists I have encountered whose vision is clarion enough to carry its song into my mind. This is what a true artist does. Thanks. I needed that.  Love