"Somnium" is Latin for "The Dream." This piece has a dreamy feel with colors running up from deep red to an iridescent indigo night sky. The stylized brain has a dyed wool fiber cerebellum. The cerebrum, the newest structure in the phylogenetic sense, is composed of layered folded custom felts.
The title, Somnium, is also a reference to Johannes Kepler's work of the same name which presents imaginative descriptions of how the Earth might look from the Moon. It has been referred to by Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov as the first work of science fiction. A few months before his death he composed his epitaph, "I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here." Visual echos of this are reflected in the fiber art piece.
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