Ian Trask is a Brunswick, Maine-based artist whose practice often transforms the stuff of everyday life into poetic visual inquiries into the workaday materials and assumptions of daily life in America.

In "Point of View," Trask exhibited a selection of his "Strange Histories" 35 mm slide photocollages. The collages, made by stacking film slides to create uncanny combinations, are by turns poignant, funny, disorienting, and joyful.

Viewers wrote in response to a curated selection of Ian Trask's Strange Histories collages in the Danforth Gallery, either on notepads designed for that purpose in the physical space of the gallery, or through an online form, using the images in the gallery above as inspiration. These responsive writings from UMA's community near and far made exhibition viewers into narrators of newly invented, even strange, histories.