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In Waking Dream three painters explore issues of beauty, identity, and interior truths. Ewuresi Archer utilizes florescent colors and distorted shapes to create unnatural environments that question the nature of reality and how it frequently slips our grasp. Crystal Miller deconstructs aesthetics that represent her Blackness and personal experiences with hair through unconventional materials such as beads yarn, rhinestones, and foam. Samantha Schneider sets up her large scale self-portraits as intensely saturated film stills or magazine advertisements using lighting tactics found in action, …