Apocalypse Dream

Presented at the Margaret Martin Gehman Gallery, 2022

There has been time to reflect on the past two years. Majority of said reflections are me becoming aware that we as a whole have gone through a pandemic.

There was a balance in my life that was bliss before COVID-19. Things changed and the balance was interrupted with lack of motivation, increased anxiety, and dreams that multiplied fear of my mental state, came in abundance. 

The following work has been a combination of trial and error with the end goal of visually presenting scenes from my dream state of mind while living in an apocalyptic world. It represents an approach to creatively describe specific memories of dreams using photography and some digital manipulation. 

With digital manipulation and layering of textured images over a set of base images, the series is meant to invoke my constant thought in a dream:

If it were to become real, feel real enough to grasp,  how does one know if they are still dreaming?