The word apophenia derives from the ancient Greek verb to “appear” and implies a tendency to find meaningful patterns among random entities. In other words, it is a process of creating or perceiving expressive and evocative relations between seemingly unrelated things, information, or events. By flipping through the pages of Julie Wolfe’s artist book and looking at them closely, the meaning of apophenia emerges naturally, unmediated and in a full spectrum. Here the images of items with no apparent connections are put together to produce a cohesive and striking visual array wherein surprises from unexpected juxtapositions result in overall harmony. And it is this sensorial harmony beyond words or explanations that underlines the meaning of Wolf’s Apophenia ¬–a nonverbal, perceptual meaning.

-Vesela Sretenovic