Collaroration between Dana Nygard and Eri Sawatsky.

In this collaborative piece, the two artists explore the traction of dream state against conscious waking mind. That space between sleep and rising, where our consciousness normalizes dismemberment and anatomical abstraction. That moment the fibrous entrails of thoughts drop into new places, materialize anew, meet reality again within the vessel of a body. This series represents the quick, harsh realities we slip into when we sleep. Terror, joy; these extremes of emotion are embodied in the real/felt experience that is presence and mindfulness, but capturing and holding space for these emotions can only truly be felt as brief moments in our waking lives where that place is possible. The subconscious dream state however? We relinquish control there and lose the tangible matter that is our physical form, into a world of loose, wobbly, emotion-driven surrealism, passing through what feels like weeks in mere moments of rest.

Charcoal, recycled paper, textile, paint, ink, varnish and mixed media on wood boards.