In Search of Circle Z

143-page paperback / 8" x 8" / ISBN 9781589881808 / Publication Date: 10/17/2023 "Dry’s keen visual sensibility propels her graceful and intriguing chronicle . . . She introduces James Perry Wilson, a master diorama landscape painter, and analyzes the power of those mesmerizing museum displays and her own wondrously soothing memoryscapes. Dry has channeled the 'magical presence' of both into drawings, photographs, and her own small dioramas, visual works that deepen this unique and evocative inquiry into perception and 'how images work for us.'”—BooklistWhen Constance Dry began to experience spontaneous mental images brought on by chronic migraine disease, she termed them “memoryscapes.” These memoryscapes were inspired by the landscape of Circle Z Ranch where Dry has spent time since childhood, and they have helped alleviate the pain of migraine. In In Search of Circle Z, Dry explores the relationship between these unbidden images and habitat dioramas, specifically those in the Americ