Sleepwalk Daydream (2022)

When you are too exhausted to be awake and too awake to go to sleep, the mind finds rest in the optimism of sleeping soon. For me, this series was inspired by the feelings accompanied by sleep deprivation. I reflect on the nights and early mornings, when I stayed up with my newborn daughter desperately waiting for sleep. I was thrown into the liminality that comes with dependence on another human being. Mercilessly waiting for rest. When resting, the familiar wave of solitude that washes over you when the rest of the world is wide awake. And never quite knowing when this cycle will end.

Sleepwalk Daydream exists because of the optimism and the limitless love for others and the self that grew as a result of such unpredictable, previously uncharted parts of myself I found in profoundly solitary moments. Some paintings reflect on childhood memories while others reflect on more recent experiences, the common denominators are the discomfort of personal growth and accepting a momentary reality. Sleepwalk Daydream is the tangible search for hope when it is most needed.