“This Side of the Dream” is a photo, collage, and installation series that explores the intangible but heavy barriers that stall momentum toward a dream, a future, or a sense of becoming.

The resulting works carry weight, both visually and emotionally, evoking the sensation of being held down by something invisible and hard to name. The glass functions as both surface and symbol: a clear yet solid and claustrophobic threshold between self and aspiration. The “glass ceilings” represented are not just external, shaped by systems and structures, but internal—ourselves getting in our own way from fear, insecurity, and the belief that certain dreams are out of reach.

This Side of the Dream

Some pieces, softened by dreamlike tones, shifting shapes, and the woman holding a layer a glass above her reflect moments of breakthrough; gentler yet stronger postures that suggest beauty and strength emerging after shattering a layer of limitation.