Berta Terrassa | Oneiric Arches

Oneiric Arches

Personal project, 2021

3D design & animation series created by me to experiment with the concept of arches and dreams.

Sound design by Pere Petit

Yellow image created in 3D remining of the desert. There's an edification with archs in the distance

Warm space. Going somewhere.

Blue image created in 3D remining of a rodeo. In the middle of the image there are stairs with an arch in the top, without anything else after that.

Calm blue space. Where to?

Purple and pink image created in 3D with a circle around the camera in the distance and a row of archs coming from the camera to the distance.

Purple further. Relatively distant.

An open space also has boundaries. References or clues that exert almost imperceptible but directing forces. Whoever can fly doesn’t seem to be affected. Escape the magnetism of opacity on a clean, eternal morning, which invites to be intrigued by a darkness that does not manifest itself as bad.

Under the solar pulse, the arches play with verticality, cooperation and axiality forming a monumental structure. This does not go unnoticed, and ideas that live on the sidelines, governed by other scales and parameters, are attracted to the composition and our presence, putting them to the test. Nothing seems dispensable. Synergy, harmony and balance are essential to achieve the levels of complexity that pushes the existence away from the nonsense.

It is unknown but we expect a solution, a pleasure, a peace of mind. We can get an idea of the distance and the journey, it seems safe and peaceful. Surely it is, despite the gloomy, harmless little creatures they observe. They do not use words, but scrutinize and traverse. What are their intentions? Is there hope? Do they want us right or wrong? Or have they just happened to exist and are curious about our presence?

The arches inhabit impossible foundations of the penrose triangle. Only movement hints an answer.

Ceramic möbius strip welcomes spheres among its paradoxes. Each deals with neverdending issues of a different nature and magnitude.

Arches and walls with windows united in an impossible cube, surrounded by reflecting balls in a looping movement forwards and backwards, remaining the essence of Escher. Are you an spectator or are you inside?

The Oneiric Arches collection places this constructive element in scenarios in which it abandons its functionality to become a powerful and evocative presence. Despite the calm, we can find subtle and mysterious beings who test the balance that the arch and space seek, becoming a precise allegory of the desire for peace and stability against the chronic collapse that involves human fragility.