Deep Dream

DEEP DREAM captures the 2025 Havana summer. The malecón is a threshold between reality and dream. I joined the people swimming in a sea of hope. I observe those seeking escape in the water. I portray their moment of surrender.

DEEP DREAM was my summer of 2025 in Havana, the summer for many whose only option was that endless sway of waves and reef. It is a gift for all the people who found in the malecón and its waters a transitional space between the physical and the spiritual world. I believe this line that divides the horizon, which we call a wall, is a liminal space between reality and dream.

I went, every day of that hot summer, to blend with the salt, the breeze, and the people—people swimming in that sea of dreams, people buoyed only by faith and hope, of whom I feel a part. I observe and portray. I like to observe those who see in that horizon an escape, those who let themselves be carried by the water as if it could wash away their sorrows, those who close their eyes for a moment and allow themselves to imagine other life.