Woman
2021
Mixed media
3 x 16 x 5.7 ft
While still at art school, I was extremely exhausted after a day of moving heavy steel work from my studio. That night I experienced sleep paralysis. I felt like I was tied down to my bed and the weight of gravity was three times more than normal. I saw a black, smokey figure floating above me, and the bottom half of my body was connected to its smoke. As I couldn’t move, I tried to find out who it was by smelling. In doing so, I slightly smelled the sweet scent of a woman and my sleep paralysis gradually disappeared. Later on, I realized that the black figure was almost exactly the same as a figure from a drawing by Japanese sculptor Isamu Wakabayashi.

Photo by Hiroyuki Mori

Photo by Hiroyuki Mori

Photo by Hiroyuki Mori