IDEA

If I ask you, where is the first place you ever woke up, what would you say?

As "icky" as it sounds, you'd probably say... the womb. Or at least you woke up when you finally left the womb, so to speak.

I noticed, as I was drawing a sleeping person (in the sleeping position I consider most "normal", the one I sleep in, which is on the side) it looked a bit like a fetus. That position for sleeping looks remarkably like the fetal position, and that made me think, if this is my favourite/safest position to sleep in... Has that got any relation to the fact that the first part of my life was spent in this position?

Is the most important "waking up" moment in our life, our first one? Where we first came into this world and took our first breath? I'd say yes.

Because my initial plan was to have my project positioned somewhere in the park, I naturally looked from the park drawing I did to the "fetus" drawing and came to the conclusion of using the idea of cocoons! The "nature" equivalent of giving birth/waking up for the first time.

I'm working on some drawings right now that explore this idea, I just took a break to write this down in case I forget part of it...