I showed this extraordinary image to my husband, the artist Tom Spleth, over dinner, and I want to share what he said:  

"Dan's panoramic photographs may seem distorted but they are the product of extremely refined technology. He is a master of all aspects of the photographic and digital technology available now. All photography distorts reality to some degree as the focal length of the lens, exposure, framing, and particular moment combine to create an image that informs the viewer about the world as the photographer sees it (or wants us to see it.) Dan simply takes this aspect of photography to the outer limit. His 360 degree panoramas, once one enters the image, tell us things about the world that we might not see otherwise because, in his images, we can look left, right, forwards, and backwards all at the same time. His images are in some ways cubist. That is, one can see all the views possible simultaneously. Whereas the cubists always walked around an object and depicted each view in one picture, it never occurred to them to look outwards and see all the views that surround us. Dan might be called a 'landscape cubist' or an 'interior cubist' or a 'cubist of the spaces we inhabit.'" 

Dan Bailey's award-winning films and animations have been screened at the Kennedy Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art, broadcast on HBO and PBS, and acquired for the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Two of my favorites are his animated virtual tour of the Cone sisters' apartments showing their furniture and collections of early 20th century art for the Walters Art Museum and his animation of the design and construction of Washington, DC. In 2013, Dan will be creating a time-lapsed photographic installation for Penland and the NC Museum of Art's collaborative exhibition 0-60, on the nature of time in art.