My work explores where stories take shape and regain vitality in the viewer’s mind, transforming the inanimate into something familiar yet uncanny; offering fleeting sensations of life where none physically exists. At its core is an interest in liveliness: how something can be perceived as alive when it is not. Using staged environments, and mediated images, the work examines how information, repetition, and narrative animate objects, spaces, and figures. Sleep functions as a key framework, understood both as a state of withdrawal and a condition of vulnerability. The transition between sleep and wakefulness becomes a working ground, where dreams operate as parallel realities in which the physical body is temporarily replaced by a constructed or imagined one. These conditions feed back into everyday perception. Remembering is approached as an unstable process in which safety, distortion, and loss coexist, producing a sense of mental nausea within the experience of one’s own timeline. Rather than explaining these processes, the work leaves them to be experienced physically