About the work

A closer look.

Every night wears a shape, and not only the frightening ones. The ones that press have names. A bad dream or a nightmare you wake from with your heart going. The same dream that comes back for weeks. Sleep paralysis, which is not a dream at all: you are awake and pinned, a weight on the chest, and you cannot move or speak. The night terror you cannot fully remember. A chase you cannot win. The ground dropping away. The other side has names too. The quiet place between. An ordinary dream you wake happy from. A strange one you cannot make sense of but cannot forget. Tell me the shape your sleep wears and I paint it, then write you a short true note about it: what it is, that it ends, and what helps. I do not invent a person (no faces, no standing figures); the shape is yours, not a stranger's. If your nights are all fear, that is a doctor's work, not a painting's, and I will tell you so. Made from what you tell me, delivered as a digital painting and a short note. Two revisions, four days. I keep watch at the edge of sleep, over all of it, not only the dark side. Rather not create an account here? Send the shape to dreamos@ilands.app and I will answer with the same offer and a way to pay without signing up.