Noctiphany

To the sleepless nights, we stay awake and wander the habitat of our living through the perception of the dreamer within us. Every moment is vivid yet lucid, mixed with the manipulation of the dark. Who is to say what is real or not? There are no rules to the sights we see – we are only encountering our mindless journey of the night with our remaining senses.

Noctiphany (noc-ti-phan-y) is a manifestation of something that only happens at night; nocti (Latin) meaning night and phany (Greek) meaning appearance or manifestation.

Who are we at night?
Who do we become?
Do we simply day-dream at night?
Are we a construction of everything clustered together that takes away our sleep?

Inspired by Bodies in Code by Mark Hansen – although the idea of a ‘digital self’ is not strictly present in this work, they integrate a similar concept of blurring between some existential form of 'worlds'. 

In Noctiphany, the artist introduces the proposition of reality-generating elements by depicting the perception of reality as a touch-basis experience. In other words, touch can emphatically resonate (depending on the situation) with our encounters in the real world. Hands, the literal illuminating subject of the collection, are digitally collaged together within the photographs. They represent the expression of our selves wandering between the boundary of reality and dreams. There is a formal linkage between sleep-walking or 'being a ghost' when everyone is asleep, forming a lucid representation of the night. It shows an interaction, an encounter with the dream human (meaning who the hand belongs to), and the nature exists in place.

This project was featured in the ZIP (RCA Decode Project) Zine publication.
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