Is life a dream or a dream, life?A dream is a succession of thoughts, images, sounds or emotions, which the mind experiences during sleep. In life you are supposedly awake. But are you really…are you sure? Sure, you might not be in your bed, asleep, but are you awake? If you are conscious of being conscious, then you are awake. In order to stay awake, you must maintain this awareness of being conscious, and not merely function on the rails you’ve run on day after day. You must become conscious of the world around you, and your part in it, not merely function as a cog in the vast sleepwalking army of humanity. You must listen carefully to the sounds and words around you, and ask yourself, "Is this necessary, or is this another come-on to make me sleep more comfortably?"
Since I was a little girl I have noticed that there are moments, brief-fleeting seconds now and then, far too rarely, when I feel truly awake. This kind of awakeness is a state of consciousness where I am not lost in my own thoughts, daydreaming or imagining but actually completely present in the current moment and aware of everything around me, entranced and enthralled by the pure beauty of life. Most of the time we are like sleep walkers upon this earth, being propelled by our mundane thoughts forward from one desire to another. Are we - and all living beings - just survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature? These are the questions I hope my works can conjure up in my viewers. 
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep…
William Shakespeare
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea
...Joseph Conrad