PERCEPTUAL ISOLATION
Archival pigment prints, 2020 - 2022
I experience a sleep disorder called sleep paralysis, which causes nightmares that are very visceral and physically intense. During these nightmares, you can't physically wake up and you are trapped in a world between dream and reality. It's state of forced immobility in your own mind. Over time, I realized that these nightmares were replaying a traumatic memory from my adolescence. This memory had been repressed for a long time, but I continued to dream about it. I was living in a state of suspension between waking and sleeping, forgetting and remembering, and dream and reality
In these photographs, I visualize the sense of suspension that I was living in as a visual metaphor for consciousness and the processing of trauma. My intention with this series is to create an immersive visual world that mirrors my internal one, and to activate the viewer as a participant in the photographs with me, to explore the mysterious depths of the mind and fragmentary processing of traumatic experience.
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