The home: an individual and unique microcosm where we feel safe and protected.
Of all the elements that make up the home, it is our own bed, the only personal and private place where we can dream, where we can be what we want, where we can enjoy a sweet dream and where we can suffer an anxious nightmare.
This circular installation which has nor a marked beginning neither an ending wants to symbolize the possible moments we spend in bed, equating it to the different phases of sleep.
Sleep is a natural state characterized by lack of awareness. During this state the sensory activity is minimum and almost all the voluntary muscles are at rest.
"... With your head on the pillow and covered up to the neck, close your eyes and wait. Some nights you fall asleep immediately, others it seems that you have been awake for a few hours and you fidget and turn in your bed while your brain reviews the anxieties and emotions of the day, but finally you fall asleep. It is then when you enter the first phase of sleep. The heart rate begins to slow down and your breathing becomes more regular. You may hear the noises of your surroundings, but you probably do not react. In fact, you don't want to react, because you are now leaving the 'real world'. And maybe you'll feel as if you were falling down, shining or disappearing, maybe you can feel a strain or shake while your body slowly switches off. This phase occupies an average 5% of the sleep.
After about 10 minutes, the second phase begins, where the real sleep starts. Heart rate slows down, breathing becomes deep and the outside world is getting further and further away. You will return to the second phase over and over again over the course of the night, and in the end you will be there about 50%.
Then comes the turn of deep sleep. Brain activity, breathing and heart rate reach their lowest levels. The real world has been blocked almost completely. We are in the dark night, where nightmares, sleepwalking or talking asleep are more than likely phenomena. The deep sleep will occupy 20% of the night.
Finally, you get to the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase. Your brain activity returns to similar levels to those that occur when you are awake. The consumption of oxygen, the heart rate and the blood pressure reach similar levels to those of the vigil. Under the eyelids your eyes begin moving, while the rest of your muscles are completely paralyzed: it is a defense mechanism that prevents you from representing the strange stories that are staged in your head. Although it only occupies 25% at night, most dreams arise here. Your brain generates everything you see, smell, taste or touch. The world you are part of only exists within you, but you do not know that. "
(fragment of the book "Diario de Sueños" by Comité Blackie, Ed. Blackie Books)