The senior thesis "Trapped in the Mind" was created to reflect recurring dreams. The thesis is built upon a film and my own paintings, both depicting recurring dreams that I have had. 

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The film shows a man trying to get to another floor of a building, but he is stuck on one floor. No matter how much he tries to leave that floor, he just returns to it. With each attempt of escape, the floor changes slightly each time, being subtle at first then drastically.

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The paintings are an order of events leading to what appears to be an apocalypse, followed by a resolution. The meaning behind the paintings show how a bad state of mind can have a serious effect on ones health, including and especially recurring dreams. One landscape after another shows subtle surrealist changes being that some otherworldly entity is present, or the land itself is marred by the presence of the red sun, which is present in every painting in the series. The final piece shows what seems to be a silver lining through the bleak nature of the works, and inspiring one to be able to concur the maze like caverns of the mind.

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