Dharma Tree 05 Drawing

They say to sleep is none other than to experience a mini-death.  Each day we fall asleep and die, each day we wake up and revive. A dream is a mini-life within the mini-death of sleep that we experience daily. To dream is to attempt to live; We are often startled by a dream and awake. We thus revive. I've endeavored to depict the vividness of this moment when familiar things appear unfamiliar. I describe this flow of memory with drawing, video and other media.  "The story is a deep and large device that function transcends the generation and the language, and I would like to believe that power," wrote Haruki Murakami.  I too believe in the power of storytelling. Narrative is an ideal form in which to imbue the 'flow of memory,' and it is the material I use to make art. Like a growing tree, a narrative sprouts new branches, which grow in all directions. My work is an experimentation in making a multi-layered narrative structure. This structure organically combines patterned modular stories; and those stories are about things that grow, live, die and disappear.