This body of work from the ONEIRIC MANIFESTATIONS series is a coterminous reconstruction of a REM-state vision, meticulously reverse-engineered by Kyle Yip into a clear acrylic wall-sculpture. This work occupies a spectral interstice where presence and absence, density and diffraction, form and formlessness coalesce. Executed in acrylic on acrylic, the painting transmits as much as it inscribes—its transparency foregrounding the immaterial as a constitutive force in the material world. Informed by the Mandukya Upanishad and the concept of turiya, the fourth and formless state of consciousness, the work gestures toward the ineffable substratum that underlies waking, dreaming, and sleep. Yip’s chromatic lexicon—drawn from the Vedic allegory of the sun’s golden chariot and its seven rays—invokes both the rainbow’s illusory arc and the spiritual architecture it signifies. Here, light is not merely depicted but diffracted; identity is not posited but permeated. The sculpture invites a durational gaze, collapsing distinctions between the optical and the ontological, rendering the dream not as fiction but as foundational.
