Stargaze by Pascale Hustings

About "Stargaze"

by Pascale Hustings

About the artwork

Lights appear above the bed. is this reality or a dream after all? From the series and artist book 21 NYX BLVD. In this book and photo series, nothing is what it seems, indoor scenes are like a cardboard stage set and outdoor scenes are without depth. NYX is the queen of the night.

The photograph was created by folding a paper bed and hanging it against a window. Holes were cut out of the background, through which shines the daylight coming from outside.
In 21 NYX BLVD, the artist explores the space between waking and sleeping-that fleeting state in which reality begins to fade and dreams take shape.

Starting from a personal object from her childhood-a doll's house-she creates images in which scale, depth and perspective are poetically disrupted. Indoor and outdoor spaces merge into an alienating dream world where memory and imagination call the shots.

The collages and photographs, taken in an old house, bring to life the tension between reality and dreamscape. Within these alienating worlds, the impact of human memory on our perception of time, space and scale plays a central role. Interiors seem out of proportion, exteriors lose their depth-as if everything moves in the logic of a dream.

The title refers to a fictional address; NYX is the Greek goddess of night, sleep and dreams-a fitting guide for this journey through the twilight realm of consciousness.
21 NYX BLVD was presented as a self-published artist's book and as a three-dimensional installation.
The book 21 NYX BLVD is no longer for sale, the images from the book are. See website www.pascalehustings.nl