Aletheia and Bedtime Story

In *Aletheia and Bedtime Story*, Brian Fisher layers disparate materials and narratives within a single mixed-media composition. The work juxtaposes philosophical inquiry—suggested by the title's reference to aletheia, or truth in classical thought—against the intimate, often fictional nature of bedtime storytelling. Through its accumulated materials and varied surfaces, the piece establishes a visual tension between revelation and obscuration, fact and fabrication. Fisher's approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a space where contradictory registers coexist. The work's material heterogeneity becomes a formal strategy, reflecting the conceptual friction embedded in its dual title and suggesting that truth itself may be constituted through multiple, sometimes conflicting, modes of narration.