FALSE AWAKENING

'Are you sleeping?' It may be a gauge of waking, but no reply does not differentiate between legitimate and pretended sleep.

Between sleep and consciousness lies a fragile territory defined by longing and uncertainty, where reality dissolves. Here, the body wakes before the mind, and dreams continue to breathe, weaving hidden hopes and fears beneath the visible world.

A false awakening is the illusion of being awake yet trapped inside a dream: certainty evaporates, perception shifts, the familiar turns unfamiliar, objects lose weight, and faces blur, echoing hidden anxieties.

This photographic series rises from a threshold, a liminal zone charged with memory and anticipation. Fragmented visions from sleep and awakening inspire monochrome landscapes and silent spaces, both tangible and unreachable. Everyday objects become spectral memories, suspended between recognition and illusion.

The images capture the restless instability of perception itself: the aching inability to distinguish what is lived from what is imagined, what is remembered from what is deeply dreamed.

FALSE AWAKENING explores the quiet, persistent tension between consciousness and illusion, a world seen with yearning clarity, but never fully touched, always evoking a sense of longing.