Katie Morris

Somnium acts as a hallucinatory repository of the subconscious. An exploration of how memory, imagination, and experience seep into – and subtly transform – our perception of place. This series imagines what cannot otherwise be seen: the intangible residue of places we’ve inhabited, glimpsed, or connected to through collective consciousness.

Each work drifts between landscape and dreamscape, obfuscating fragments of reality and reassembling them through distortion and transformation. These are places that do not exist, yet feel as though they could - topographies of the mind caught between worlds that oscillate between recognition and abstraction.

Spaces appear to exist in flux; half-remembered expanses, collapsing architectures and surreal geographies, perpetually emerging and evolving from the mind's reconfigurations. The tendrils and textures of each surface seem to offer a structure for the logic of dreams that can never be seen – a vague familiarity that immediately slips into the ambiguous melding of recognition found in the uncanny. This leaves a sense of erosion, not just of form, but of certainty and understanding.