SLEEP SPINDLES_05 is part of a series of the same title that I have been developing since the beginning of 2026.
For the past thirteen years, I have been working on a single Carrara marble stone that serves as the matrix for all of my lithographs. The stone permanently remains on the press bed in the printmaking studio located in my home garage. Directly above it is my bedroom. The works from the SLEEP SPINDLES series can therefore be understood as a record of shared dreaming - my own and the stone’s.
Years of working on the same stone have made it become more than just a matrix for me. It is a witness to time, a medium necessary for visualizing images, and the alphabet of the language through which I speak. At night, we dream simultaneously. Our dreams intersect.
The prints are repeated materializations of this shared dream. The stone absorbs and releases time, humidity, the weight of silence, and the repetitive nature of the process. Every image developed through this medium becomes a preserved fragment of a dream - a dream that does not belong exclusively to me.
The title’s sleep spindles are brief bursts of electrical brain activity visible in electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings during the NREM (non-rapid eye movement) phase of sleep. They appear when brain activity quiets and the body regenerates. Sleep spindles are responsible for memory consolidation - the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory - enabling the preservation of experiences, skills, and images.
At the same time, sleep spindles isolate the sleeper from external stimuli. They protect the continuity of sleep by suppressing sounds and sensory impulses coming from the surroundings. They function simultaneously as a mechanism sustaining both sleep and memory.