Visual embroidery with attitude best describes Cherie Essan Laurent's multi-layered imagery where strong use of architecture and human form make for striking symbolism with Spanish emphasis. Every day people in this series are transformed into lyrical characters of the imagination, where like in alchemy they have been turned rom lead into gold. Pre-Raphaelite interiors create a mysterious sensuality that defies all photographic art-realism that has gone before. This is high-level art photography that is rare if not existing before, at the same time startlingly novel yet strangely familiar.