Recollection no.8

This painting is from the series; Dream State, where I reflect on the layers of our consciousness and how our dreaming selves affect our waking selves. The layered portraits symbolize waking states and dreaming states, having them layered over top emphasizes the multi-layered nature of our consciousness. The amount of blue portrait that is visible varies in each, as a way of showing the varying ways we relate to and can tap into our subconscious minds, person to person. The clothing for the top portrait is cut vellum, making it easy to see what layers underneath. Each painting has lush poppy flowers of varying types. Reflecting on how our brains release DMT while we dream, a chemical with psychedelic properties that can be found in certain medicinal plants. The ways our brains relate and mimic the natural world around us so deeply, helps us remember we are nature rather than believing we just exist in it.

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