REM COLLECTION
Have you ever woken up and not known if it was a memory or a dream?
My room was just big enough for a mattress so I would roll up my piece of foam every night and put it away in a ritualistic practice to create a space to dream. This process inspired the REM Collection where I contort the foam and freeze its form with resin. Blurring the line of reality I ask these materials to become something they don't want, soft becomes hard, collapse becomes structure.
I was drawn to the industrial aesthetic of the tessellation pattern of the egg crate foam and how it overlaps with nature, allowing these characteristics to to contrast with the flat planes creating a friction and cohesion in the work.
Our beds are a deeply personal space that we hold sacred and transport us to the world of dreams, share secrets, and have intimate moments of vulnerability. Using dream analysis as a contemporary 3d modeling space I created my work in a lucid state of REM; waking up, journaling, and sketching. The REM Collection refers to the dream state where our minds are most active, wandering, expanding and getting lost deep within ourselves.
