THE BIG SLEEP
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Inspired from a dream I had about roaming alone through the desert, searching for food and water and slowly losing my mind body and soul. I remember wondering the constant morphing landscape of the desert day and night. Feeling like i was walking in circles constantly balancing on the line between life and death like a tightrope making me feel like a walking skeleton. I remember being painfully aware of the sound of my own heartbeat constantly beating like a timer running out, similar to the way when you notice a clock ticking in a room and can't help but listen to it. Seeing visions of an eclipse that I somehow knew was a sign of my last moments which gave the dream this anxious feeling of constant exhausting urgency. I've always been fascinated by dreams and wondered if it was just a random mess of feelings and images stitched together by your subconscious, or if they have a message or meaning behind them. I barely feel like i can take credit for this piece as all the ideas and visuals were just given to me in the dream. i love that even me (its creator) am still trying to figure out what this piece means or if it means anything and cant give anyone a solid description or meaning behind it seeing as its birthed from a dream. Which kind of puts me as the artist in more of a similar place as the viewer trying to understand it (which is especially ironic since its one of the few pieces where I myself am depicted in the image). Just like dreams and my favourite art it has as many interpretations as there are people looking at it. More then any other piece I've done, it demands to be interpreted differently by each viewer and each interpretation be no less true or false then the last. My favourite part is that by its nature of being born from a dream, it resists to have just one solid interpretation.
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