SERAFAT'S DREAM

Serafat’s Dream follows the journey of Serafat, an angel apprentice who abandons his own world, a realm of perfect, self-contained ideas, in search of something it cannot provide: truth grounded in lived experience. Unable to find it within the closed system of his origin, he escapes into the human world, passing through a network of dream realms that act as both passage and testing ground.

The series draws from recurring dream environments developed over years, places that return with consistency, structure, and their own internal logic. These are not imagined at will, but encountered, explored, and gradually understood. Within them, Serafat moves through shifting states of awareness, each painting marking a stage in his attempt to reconcile what he comes from with what he seeks.

Throughout this journey, he crosses paths with ambiguous figures: mythical beings that seem native to these realms, and humans who appear altered by insight, figures who suggest that understanding is not granted, but cultivated. Some guide, some obstruct, and others simply exist, indifferent to his search. Together, they form a landscape that feels both inhabited and purposeful, without ever fully explaining itself.

At its core, the series proposes a reversal: that leaving a “perfect” world is not a fall, but a necessary step toward integration. Serafat’s movement is not outward into greater complexity, but inward, into uncertainty, fragmentation, and experience. The dream worlds become the medium through which this process unfolds, holding states that cannot be accessed directly in waking life.

Serafat’s Dream presents these spaces as real in their own right, environments that can be revisited, mapped, and engaged with over time. The paintings are less about illustrating dreams than about preserving their continuity, inviting the viewer to step into a world where meaning is not given, but encountered.