Tenebris Somniorum

Tenebris Somniorum is a self-portrait photographic series based on recurring dreams over the years, where I explore the topics of death, drowning, sleep paralysis, the loss of loved ones and spiritual guides. I have experienced recurrent dreams all my life and I have always felt that most of them might have a special meaning. I started to think about the meaning of these dreams, about the possibility that they were persistent because I needed to give them an interpretation for them to show me something. And started to write down all those dreams as detailed as I could remember as well as the variations between the di@erent versions of the same dream. Reading those words over and over, some images started to form in my mind, and I felt the need of not just creating them, but also to be the main character in all those scenes. This is how I decided to bring them to life as a series, called “Tenebris Somniorum”. "Tenebris Somniorum" means "Dark Dreams" in Latin. I decided to use an ancient language, because all these recurrent dreams had that scent of being of another life, a past one.