Oneiric

2022–2025

Oneiric begins after the daytime version of life has started to fall away and our nighttime selves remind us how to relax our shadows.

People loosen up and plans become less important. The behaviors that make sense during the day give way to curiosity, intimate conversations, experimentation and sometimes a little wickedness or innocent play.

Rather than escaping boredom, this series stays with it.

An evening might begin with nothing more than driving around, talking, smoking, taking a train or looking for somewhere to go. Without a destination, there is space for something less prescribed to develop.

The city becomes quieter at these hours, but the people inside it often become more themselves.

Nearby nature opens itself up to exploration. New friends become old friends when we expose our struggles that the sun will never hear about. And we all feel big when we are above it all looking down on that world that suffocated us in the daytime.

There is freedom in being out without needing to arrive anywhere. The night can stretch for hours without much happening, yet somehow contain more memories than a crowded room ever could.

Oneiric follows that quieter form of abandon: the moments when people stop performing their daytime lives and allow the night to become whatever it becomes.