Living Images are digital video loops designed to give form to the imaginary friends and invisible things that are am is be us.
The first Living Images series “Imaginary Friends & Invisible Things” premiered at gallery 31Grand in New York City (2008) as a part of a group show curated by Barnaby Whitfield.
“Slow moving video loops of richly textured figurative tableaux, Michael Pope’s Living Images draw deeply from the worlds of the neo-romantics, mystic realism and, perhaps more discretely, tantric ritual. Speaking equally to both the divine and perverse within us all, Pope’s Living Images give form to the inner angels and demons of his own creative process and in so doing creates a living mythology.” - 31Grand Catalogue