In this work, I explore the duality of the self and the unknown, using dreams as a portal and a line of  communication, between the individual and the collective unconscious. I explore the duality of the self and the unknown as it relates to the concept of the perpetual present. My work begins with accumulated layers that create thresholds, transitions, and intentional movements. They reach towards form but never come into complete being. The tension between marks a knowable space but presents the world as elusive and changing, indeterminate and unstable. This simultaneity, the feeling of ungroundedness or lack of resolution, is an invitation to accept a center that is inherently off balance, but within an energy that is contained.