Contact Sheet #41 Elise Mitchell Sanford : The stuff of Dreams

In a series of seventy portraits which comprise the cycle The Stuff of Dreams, an attempt by the artist to explore the roles of dress, gesture and context in the internal and external perceptions of individual identity. Each of the subjects in the series appears as someone influential in his or her life. When asked why she selected Hedy Lamarr for her portrait, Ms. Sanford candidly replied "I always wanted to wear a wig."