The painting explores the vulnerability of a person during sleep. In this state of rest, one relinquishes conscious control over immediate reality and opens up to an alternate world where pure creativity unfolds unrestrained by reason. Sleep, although not the safest refuge due to the lack of control, becomes a gateway to dreams and visions, a realm where imagination and the subconscious merge to create fantastical stories and scenarios.
As the body relaxes and the conscious mind quiets, this state of reverie allows the day’s accumulated information and emotions to be processed and organized. Essential details find their place in active memory, while less relevant aspects are stored in the subconscious, forming the foundation from which our dreams are nourished. The painting captures this duality of sleep, where the fragility of physical existence is compensated by the richness and freedom of the inner world.
