Self portrait of a dream is a video and sound art project that attempts to survey and situate a space for projecting intimate ideas into reality. The project operates as a sonic and visual representation of the contested space that is the subconscious where our cognition of reality and our subjective projections of that same reality battle for space, attention and relevance. Made up of 5 video and sound installations, the non-linear narrative work if inspired by various research works into the psychology of dreaming and sleep (REM sleep) as well as the artists own unique overview on the act of dream as a form of militant defiance of our present reality, where we aim to alter our world through the singular act or wishful thinking. The videos are threaded as meditation on fluidity that encourage viewers to center themselves and their thoughts as they continually bend their dreams to fit the space the world makes available for wishful thinking. Through a prism of infinity, the installation playfully validates escapism as survival in a climate fixated on the pain of endurance. 

Using self-portraiture as a lens to magnify the scope of the active process of dreaming, the work invites audience to partake in an open surgery of the contested situational space that is the subconscious through a sequence of  fragmented video projections harmonized by sound. The goal is to prompt a form of collective catharsis that becomes apparent once viewers begin to question their own relationship with dreaming, either as an extension of the subconscious into the conscious reality or an avenue for escape. 

(Developed at Cryptic's Visual Artist Residency Program 2019)