MICHIGAN CITY, IN.- “Conversations with Chaos,” an exhibition of photo collage work by Daryl Thetford exploring the challenges of contemporary life, is being featured in the Hyndman Gallery at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, July 2 – September 24, 2016. The exhibition was organized by CarolAnn Brown, Exhibitions Curator at LCA.

Describing the works in a statement accompanying the exhibition, Daryl Thetford wrote: We are bombarded with advertisements on billboards, cars, television, and in the sky. News, e-mail, weather updates, images of war, social networking pages, and stories of loss, hunger, and natural and man-made disasters are delivered to our computers and phones night and day.

These are the external things, the information, data, and titillating images that impinge on our senses, demanding our attention in a hundred different ways.

And we are bombarded from within as well, by our own unremitting thought cycles: a constant loop of hopes and fears, dreams and worries, a relentless anxiety against the specter of which we yearn to predict and control the future.

These are the hundred storms that batter us internally and externally, creating chaos and a heightened sense of disarray that cannot be tamed as long as we refuse to examine all of the fragments.

What, exactly, are these fragments? How can we engage in a dialogue with chaos that advances, rather than alienates us, from the interior and exterior events that invade and infuse our lives? This series asks the viewer to engage in this dialogue, to provide possible answers, or better yet, to live with these questions and the other questions brought forth from the viewer’s unconscious.

Daryl Thetford’s work has been commissioned by dozens of corporate and private clients including DMACC Urban Campus, in Des Moines, Iowa; ESa, the nationally known architectural firm in Nashville, Tennessee, Scripps Networks, in Knoxville, Tennessee and The Menard Financial Group in Houston, Texas. His most recent municipal commission was just installed in Colorado under the auspices of The City of Loveland Art In Public Places program.

His work is included in the collections of Arrow Electronics, Dorsey & Whitney, Denver Republic Plaza Building; Launch Pad, LoDo’s Bar and Grill, M2 Lending Solutions, Penn College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Pinnacle Financial Partners Corporate Art Collection in Nashville, Tennessee; Utah Orthopedic, SHE, Spine & Injury Center in Salt Lake City, Utah; Texas Office of Tourism in Austin, Texas; Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield Corporate Art Collection in Sioux City, Iowa and the Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa Corporate Art Collection in Des Moines, Iowa, among many others.