They say to sleep is none other than to experience a mini-death.
Each day we fall asleep and die, each day we wake up and revive. A dream is a mini-life within the mini-death of sleep that we experience daily. To dream is to attempt to live; We are often startled by a dream and awake. We thus revive. I've endeavored to depict the vividness of this moment when familiar things appear unfamiliar. I describe this flow of memory with drawing, video and other media.
"The story is a deep and large device that function transcends the generation and the language, and I would like to believe that power," wrote Haruki Murakami. I too believe in
