Digital Dreams - Metaphysical Reflections

In this breathtakingly beautiful book, Lisa Wray combines two distinct genres to produce something new, original, never been seen paintings. True to the title, she is meditating in pictures, colors, shapes and forms. There is text – quotes from some of the world's best writers and thinkers – which she illustrates with her paintings. The whole effect engages both the mind and the heart and lifts us into another level. lt's not just the paintings that are beautiful here. The book itself, its production and layout, is a work of art. Rarely have I seen such nuances of color reproduced so faithfully. This is the kind of a book that you don't put in a bookshelf, but rather want to have on your coffee table, as a decoration. Many of the paintings are of the mandala style – hieroglyphs of wholeness– nature forms seen in a new way. But many are reminiscent of Dali and his surrealism– we are in another space, where nature forms and human forms coexist and tell a dream like story. She has managed to marry digital art with metaphysical painting to create a whole new art form. Lisa Wray is an important voice in new millennium art. If the purpose of Art is to take us out of the mundane and the humdrum into the world of the Beautiful, DIGITAL DREAMS succeeds.
- Joseph Polansky, Diamondfire, December 2000