Snap shot. Frankfürt, Germany. Mary Louise Wilson stares up from her baby carriage and dares a photographer to make her smile. San Antonio, Texas. She begins to explore the other side of the camera. Later there are academic pursuits in the two-dimensional realm of light and shadow. Exhibitions. Accolades. Prizes. She loved the smell of fixer in the morning. Hypo clearing agent might have produced a type of visual lucidity that resulted in mysterious and transcendent photographic visions. Null and void? Au contraire. Zeros and ones added up to instant aesthetic gratification in image making. Mary Wilson Matthews investigated abandoned structures, dusty storage rooms, desolate landscapes and enigmatic mannequins with wild artistic abandon. She published a book of photographs in 2007 entitled "A World Next Door to Yours" the introduction written by a local educator and poet read, "Mary has acquired a remarkable local reputation for her photographs over the last few years”