My question is a question is one I struggle with every day: “when we all fall asleep where do we go?”
I chose this not only to keep with my theme of death, but because it really is something that runs my mind and something I feel I can put my all into because it is something I feel like I need an artistic outlet for. Since the second we were given our sneak peak on this project I knew I wanted to do this question and I already had a vision in my brain for what I wanted to make. I think this has a dual meaning- it can be literal or metaphorical. It can be literal in the sense of when we fall asleep at night what happens to our minds? Why we sleep and dream and where dreams come from are topics that scientists are still struggling with. I have extremely vivid dreams that feel so real that sometimes I don’t know whether or not it was real. It is so fascinating that our brain plays mind games with itself and cannot even distinguish if the things it created are real or not. It can also be metaphorical in the sense of death- what happens to us after death is a question humans have tried to answer since the beginning of our existence. Almost or every single culture on earth has an explanation for what happens to us when we pass on and leave this earth. What does it feel like, is there heaven or afterlife, does it hurt? I have an irrational fear of death and I think having my art centered around it is my way of coping and facing it and somehow creating my own explanation that is comforting to me. I would say 10 things: bed, tombstone, heaven, hell, ghost, pain, ground, screams, dreams, and darkness.