Hypnagogia
2021
12.5”x10”x9”
Ceramic and Glass
Hypnagogia is the transitional state which occurs between being awake and falling asleep. The brain’s electrical activity can be measured in waves and the first stage of sleep where Alpha waves occur, are slow, spread out waves which I reiterated in the pattern of the glass dress. This in-between state of “almost"
is where hallucinations, lucid dreaming, body jerks and sleep paralysis can occur. The figure’s gesture, though not in a recumbent position, represents this state with her almost closed eyes, her hands almost touching her face, or almost touching each other. Her dress, almost appearing as a blanket, isn’t the solid heavy weight of slumber but instead an ethereal translucent shell.