LYKEN
Claiming ownership of old nightmares.
LYKEN reconstructs the emotional space of childhood night terrors, using XR to translate unconscious fear into physical form. Through 3D modelling, photogrammetry, and real landscapes, the work re-enters half-remembered moments, transforming them into something visible and solid within the waking world.
“CONFRONTING OLD NIGHT TERRORS”
The misted, twisted forest becomes the limbo world — a threshold between consciousness and paralysis. The statues feel both ancient and newly awoken, conscious yet trapped, waiting to be visited again. Each form is derived from fragmented memories of childhood nightmares: echoes of fear fossilised in matter.
LYKEN operates between psychology and memory, exploring dissociation, stasis, and the ‘in between’. By reconstructing this internal terrain, the project revisits the site of fear not as trauma, but as evidence of the mind’s capacity to protect and contain itself when reality begins to fracture.
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Location: Endless Loop
"This is an attempt to claim ownership of old nightmares"