DREAMS

This collection is based on dreams I have had and/or the feeling I have gotten after or during a dream. Sometimes we forget that our body needs rest, or that if we eat sugar before we sleep we can manifest terrible visions while we rest. They could just be surface tension, nothing more then what we face when we close our eyes, or they can mean so much more then we realize.

Have you ever had a dream that felt so authentic you believed it to be reality? My dreams consume my thoughts everyday, it almost feels like a blur at times. From the day dreams I have to the night terrors, a lot of them stick with me. I have trouble expressing my emotional reaction from these imaginative visions I experience while sleeping so when I abruptly wake up from them I immediately sketch them down so I can turn them into potential art pieces. A lot of my artworks have to do with my dreams, and my dreams relate back to what I have experienced in my day to day life. They are a continuation of my mentality, my emotional state, and my soul. This piece was inspired by that feeling I tend to get when I am stuck in between reality and my imagination. The blur of color as I am trapped in black and white, unable to get out, for I am ‘stuck in limbo’. I use a medium that speaks to the specific piece at hand; with this piece, I chose pencil as my comfort tool while also rendering my art digitally in an attempt to show traditional and newer ways to depict creativity within a piece of art.