Sleepwalk [serie Abyss]
2007
photography
115 x 150 cm
In Sleepwalk, familiar forms withdraw from immediate recognition.
It remains uncertain whether what we see is a land, an underwater expanse, or an aerial space.
The scale and orientation become incongruent and the organic formations seem to drift across unstable horizons, where background and foreground, distance, limits, and voids dissolve into one another.
The photograph depicts submerged vegetation in a riverbed, yet the nebulous environment appears ambiguous, eluding conventional forms of reasoning.
Opposite qualities coexist in subtle tension: chaotic and harmonious, emerging and submerged, delicate and sinister, precious and decaying.
The title refers to a state of sleepwalking, not as a metaphor for the unconscious, but as a quality of experience – the sleepwalkers don’t simply dream, they inhabit the space differently.
It is an invitation to proceed into the unfathomable not by measuring coordinates, but as if guided by an awareness that does not conform to ordinary logic.
The image slowly emerges, unfolding like a musical chord.
Reality and vision remain inseparable, reverberating within a field of perceptual permeability.
