When Sleep Comes, I’ll Be Awake, 2022
Handmade Photobook
8x10in
Handmade Photobook
8x10in
A visual journal born from three sleepless nights, a descent into altered perception, where time dissolves and thoughts blur. An attempt to document the intangible: the fragile mental state that emerges when the body is pushed past exhaustion, and the mind starts to float somewhere between clarity and dream.
What happens when we stay awake long enough to slip out of ourselves?
The photographs, made during this self-imposed state of insomnia, move between abstraction and reality. Shot on film using slow shutter speeds and darkroom processes, they reflect a disconnection between inner experience and the outside world — bodies in motion, lights that stretch and flicker, moments that don’t quite hold still.
Hand-bound with Japanese stitching, holding the residue of the experience: notes scrawled in the dark, photogram tests marked by error, textures that echo the mind’s restless movement. These fragments form a loose narrative but intuitive, echoing the way memory stutters when sleep is replaced by wakefulness.
A reflection of a temporary state of being, shaped by intensity, isolation, and the thin line between awareness and dream. An in-between space, to feel the disorientation rather than to try to understand it.