Uncanny Dreams
“What happens when we fall asleep? Where do we go in the quiet hours? Do we drift into memory, imagination, or something else entirely?
Are dreams a kind of alternate reality, a dimension we visit when our waking mind loosens its grip?
Could they be quantum echoes, a hidden layer of reality where time and logic bend, where parallel versions of ourselves flicker in and out of existence? Or are they whispers from people long past, resurfacing in symbols and faces we can’t quite place?
Some believe dreams are where we encounter the divine, others say they’re psychological mirrors, or that they are fragments of other lives, past, future, or simultaneous. Maybe we’re remembering something we were never supposed to forget.
The technical process behind this new body of work involves sculpting and set design for visual reference that echo some of my own dreams. Every detail builds a world that blurs the boundary between waking life and the sleeping surreal. The white-washed setting, the calligraphic messages, the paper-flesh textures, the half-hidden crescent moon, is part of the world I’m building.
Man on the Moon
“It’s just that kind of place man
Where children reign and flowers grow to be big as trees
As if you’ve walked there before but without eyes so you find it uncanny
And how would you have them be, if not strange?
Just let them be!
Drifters, lovers, a place I’ll find you if I can’t on earth.
Just something I think you should know:
Your bright light never blinds me so I’ll paint you shadow vows here on moon.”
Somewhere Out There, oil on panel, 12×12’’
Bring Me A Dream, oil on panel, 12×12’’
The calligraphy acts as a secret language, preserving spur of the moment thoughts that I have. Rather than writing in a traditional journal, I inscribe my emotions directly into my work, turning the surface into a sanctuary where vulnerability is protected by abstraction. The words, often fragmented or obscured, are not meant to be immediately understood. This practice transforms my paintings into both storytelling vessels and emotional safekeeping.
Orbit, oil on panel, 48’’