This body of work explores intimacy in the home environment, and how emotions and sensations can be shown through images. I have focused on the bedside and the feelings experienced at times between waking and sleeping. The dreamer exists in a world somewhere between the reality of their surroundings and their imaginings. Potentially mundane moments can take on otherworldly, or uncanny qualities, tinted by a personal gaze.

 

The colour crimson has become a particular fascination of mine. It holds a wide range of associations from violence and heat to desire and fondness. In the work below, I have used it to represent bodily heat in the cool night, considering the verb “to crimson”, i.e. to blush, and the intimacy that entails. I want to capture some of what it feels to lie in bed and the sensations felt during the transition from waking to sleeping. The body feels heavy, limbs droop, and cheeks feel warm against cool cotton sheets.