Description
‘Hypnagogia’ by Robert Steven Connett
Artist: Robert Steven Connett
Title: ‘Hypnagogia’
Medium: Acrylic on sealed wood panel
Dimensions: 11″ x 14″ x 1″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2020
About the Artwork:
“HYPNAGOGIA is the experience that we have of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep. HYPNAGOGIA occurs as you drift off to sleep or as you wake up. The visions we see in our minds eye can range from the magnificent to the grotesque! This painting is a modest attempt to illustrate this phenomenal experience! Dreams and all things related to dreams have always been a passion for me. I think I prefer the world of dreams to my reality. I look forward to this experience, and when I can, I attempt to recall and incorporate specific visions into my paintings.” – Robert Steven Connett
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Robert Steven Connett is a self-taught artist currently living in Los Angeles California. His beautifully realized visions of an unseen world teeming with vibrant and complex lifeforms opens windows into a universe that we rarely contemplate. Microscopic biological phenomena of the natural world, both flora and fauna, and particularly that of oceanic origins, provide Connett with bountiful inspirations. His colorful imagination ensures his creations rise above the natural and inhabit a sphere somewhere between the familiar and the extraordinary. Connett masterfully brings a sumptuous and bizarre underworld into existence, a remembrance of a time when life was plentiful and mysterious before the great extinction began.