Most of the hand-colored prints in this show were taken between 1997 and 2000 in Old Wethersfield and in the North West Corner of Connecticut.

Whatever they are called: scarecrow, jack-of-straw, tattybogle, kakashi, they are found all around the world. They range from bits of magic in the backyard garden to figures prominent at fall festivals.

I have always loved them and have featured my interpretations of them in this exhibit.

Sandy Haiko is originally from Needham, Massachusetts. She holds a Bachelor of fine arts Degree From S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz and has been teaching photography at the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Connecticut for the last 15 years.

Sandy Haiko has been working with hand-colored imagery and other non-traditional photographic processes for over 25 years. Among the places where her work has been exhibited includes the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Connecticut; Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich; Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts; William Carlos Williams Performing Art Center, Rutherford, New Jersey; the Lenox Arts Center, Agnes Irwin School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sonneck Society-Festival of New Music at Florida State University; Westover School; and Loomis-Chaffee School.

From 1982 to 1990 she was a member of MAPS, Inc, a collaborative multimedia ensemble which brought 20th century music and poetry to the stage. A major performance piece performed by MAPS, Inc. is "Harmonium", a song cycle of 20 poems by Wallace Stevens, set to music by Vincent Persichetti, with simultaneous projections of imagery by Sandy Haiko. In addition, to the projections, Sandy Haiko produced a series of hand-colored photographs that were exhibited in conjunction with each performance.