Sona Lee
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
My artwork explores the liminal space where consciousness and unconsciousness intersect—those fleeting moments before sleep or upon waking, when control over thought and mental imagery slips away. In this threshold, memory acts as a psychological anchor, shaping fragmented dreams into emotional landscapes. But memory, for me, is not a fixed record of the past—it is constantly reconstructed through present feelings and imagination. I’m drawn to incomplete, emotionally charged memories that resurface as jumbled images. They emerge in my work as fragments of photographs, unfamiliar colors, and recurring forms, creating landscapes not of what was real but of what could have been real.
These elements merge in my artwork into dreamlike scenes where repetition blends with the unfamiliar, creating a space that feels both intimate and disorienting. Figures resist clear identification, and overlapping moments form panoramic vistas that attempt to preserve transience—those fragile sensations and impressions that usually fade. My work seeks to evoke the haunting, mesmerizing quality of dreams, where the familiar becomes strange and the strange feels almost real.