SLUMBER 2024

Exhibition at BOTH Gallery.

SLUMBER: at the threshold of sleep

What does the sleep of reason bring? Navigating through sleeping states of being, on experiences of embodiment, the architecture of remembered space and the elusive shifts in consciousness at the borders of sleep, insomnia and dreams.

Working for eight weeks as an artist in residence to capture the elusive states of mind at the borders of sleep. Conversations between the surface and depth, skin and bone, absence and presence, drawing and sculpture. Caylus is a small medieval village, next to the River Bonnet and Cascade Petrifiante. Time in this environment, the water, the rocks, the quiet, crumbling village all resonate in ones thoughts, bones and dreams.

‘We are cast upon the shores of our bedlinen from out of the infinite ocean of the night, left like debris as the dream recedes from us’. Peter Schwenger: At the Borders of Sleep.

 

SKIN AND STONE,

linen pillow case, river rocks

 
 

I LOSE MY EDGES AT THE FALL OF SLEEP

linen pillow case, river rock, net

 
 

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

stick, linen, wadding, glass dome

 
 

LET ME REST, I

linen pillow case, absent river rock

 
 

NO PLACE TO REST

linen pillow case, river rocks

 
 

BUT, I GREW WINGS

river rock, bed linen, sticks

 
 

I WAS A BIRD, THEN

puppet, found stick, linen, brick (image 1) branch string (image 2)