Sleep Study

Sleep Study

Sleep Study

The brain is as active in sleep as it is awake. But when we sleep, we are paralyzed and do not remember where we have been or what we have done. How can we map this? 

Rather than focusing on biochemical explanations, I choose to examine the interior world that resides in our unconscious.  I look to map those points in sleep where we are active in a deep, hidden place. Where we live a separate life. The light in night, the shimmer and sparkle, shows the dream.

Tarpaper is heavy, like the weight behind your eyes; eyeshadow the ephemera looking behind at all that has ever happened to you; the sparkle – every possibility, in every direction. The possibility to change the past, create the future, to revel in the now. Behind your eyes you can see. Now open them.

Upon waking, the dream falls away and consciousness becomes sharper – the tangible shift.

Lucid Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper. 2016. 44"x40"
Lucid
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper.
2016. 44″x40″
Undersense Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper. 2016. 44"x40"
Undersense
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper.
2016. 44″x40″
Theta Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper 2016. 44”x40"
Theta
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper
2016. 44”x40″
Reverie Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper. 2016. 44"x40"
Reverie
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper.
2016. 44″x40″
REMory Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper. 2016. 44"x40"
REMory
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper.
2016. 44″x40″
Somnipath Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper 2016. 44"x40"
Somnipath
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper
2016. 44″x40″
Inmost Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper 2016. 44"x40"
Inmost
Watercolor and eye shadow on roofing paper
2016. 44″x40″