Insomnia is a project about a particular state between external reality and the inner space of consciousness. I am interested in the moment when the familiar order of things begins to weaken, time loses its linear sequence, and thoughts, images, memories, and sensations begin to exist simultaneously.

Night here is not simply a time of day. It becomes a space of another way of seeing.

In the state of insomnia, the external world gradually loses its clarity. Objects, bodies, fragments of landscape or architecture cease to exist as stable images. They overlap, dissolve, return as memories, or emerge as intuitions that have not yet fully taken form.

The real and the imagined can no longer be definitively separated.

For this reason, layering becomes one of the central visual principles of the series. One image may emerge through another; a fragment of reality may exist within an abstract field; a familiar form may gradually lose its boundaries. The work takes on the character of a palimpsest, in which previous states never disappear completely but remain present beneath those that follow.

These layers correspond to the very nature of memory and consciousness. We rarely experience the present moment in isolation: it simultaneously contains residues of the past, fragments of memory, expectations of the future, spontaneous associations, and inner images.

In Insomnia, this hidden process becomes visible.

Light plays a particular role. It does not necessarily have a specific source and does not so much illuminate objects as reveal particular states of space. A patch of light, a contour, a reflection, or a wave of energy may appear as a brief signal — a moment of concentration within a broader state of instability.

The human figure also ceases to function as a traditional protagonist. It may exist as a silhouette, a reflection, a contour, a fragment of the body, or an energetic trace. Its presence becomes uncertain: we do not always know whether we are seeing a real person, their reflection, a memory of them, or an image created by consciousness.

Insomnia therefore gradually moves beyond the subject of night. For me, it is an exploration of the instability of perception — a state in which the human being finds themselves between reality, memory, imagination, and anticipation.

It is a space in which the past may suddenly emerge within the present, while the future may exist only as an indistinct signal.

Within the context of my previous projects, Insomnia continues my exploration of invisible processes, but shifts them from external space into the inner realm. If in Presence an invisible force reveals itself through changes in the environment, here human consciousness itself becomes the environment.

I am interested not only in the question of what exists beyond the boundaries of the visible, but also in how consciousness constructs its own reality from fragments of what has been seen, experienced, remembered, and imagined.