“Sleepless Seattle” captures the emotional landscape of the Pacific Northwest — a city felt as atmosphere, rhythm, and shifting layers of light. Unlike the sun-drenched intensity of your Mediterranean works, Seattle enters the senses differently: through moisture, muted color, metallic reflection, and the soft vibration of rain on surfaces. This mixed-media collage archives that experience, reconstructing the city not through skyline depiction, but through the emotional weight and sensory texture of being inside its weather.
Layered paper-mâché, cool-toned fragments, and textured surfaces echo the city’s materials: rain-darkened concrete, wet metal, driftwood, fog-lit glass, and the reflective shimmer of puddles at dusk. Soft blues, greys, greens, and deep charcoal tones form a palette that is both soothing and saturated — the way a neurodivergent mind reads Seattle’s constant interplay of wetness and muted color. Shapes overlap like buildings glimpsed through mist, ferry lights across the Sound, or branches blurred by rainfall.
The work holds both melancholy and comfort. Seattle’s weather presses inward — a sensory weight that quiets the external world and heightens internal perception. Yet within that subdued atmosphere lies a deep emotional warmth: coffee steam, reflections on wet streets, the glow of windows against dark afternoons. The piece embodies this tension between stillness and motion, heaviness and softness, solitude and connection.
As part of the Sensory Archives series, “Sleepless Seattle" expands the project into atmospheric geography, demonstrating that place-based memory is not always bright or architectural — sometimes it is weather, humidity, breath, and the emotional architecture created by climate itself.
