There is more here than we can see. There always is, and always has been. We are in a fascinating time, a time where people question reality daily. The specter of artificial intelligence and disinformation looms large in a way that we haven’t seen before. Even with this lurch toward non-human fabricated images, the mystical and unreal has always been with us. Images have been manipulated and altered since the birth of photography. The crux of infrared photography that fascinates me is how real it actually is, in a literal sense despite seeming false. Whereas an artificially generated image is a complete fabrication, a hallucinated quasi digital art of some sort; infrared photography takes very real light that we physically cannot see and reveals it to us. If that isn’t magic, then I don’t know what is. I hope this work, Kindling for Reality, brings back a renewed interest in the infrared photography medium and reminds the photography community that despite hundreds of years of technological advancement we have only begun to scratch the photographic medium's surface.