When being in the dream things may make perfect sense, while being in the waking realm it often becomes strange. The strangeness is something I am exploring in this series, I aimed to visualise what’s not directly photographable by manipulating analog photographs in post-production. The plants symbolise the subconscious, infesting sleep like roots growing into the soil, though secretly. But the subconscious is still so powerful in the waking realm, possessing our memories and emotions if we don’t let the conscious part take over. Experiences created involuntarily sometimes can haunt us coming out of nowhere before we realise that it was the doing of the subconscious during the night, but sometimes we don’t - we forget what is real and what’s not, experiences are still experienced, even when they are actually never experienced in the conscious realm.
The subconscious is the part of us that we cannot manipulate, as if it has a mind of its own, a dimension we cannot access but roams free on its own during sleep, a structure so strongly rooted somewhere in the depth of our minds. Roots can spread so far that it becomes destructive, secretly until it emerges out of the soil.