Mist - a digital photobook by Dean Palapar

Mist a digital photobook by Dean Palapar

Uneasing Currents

“Saan ba tayo dadalhin ng ating mga gawi?”

“May mga lugar na sa panaginip mo lamang ay mapupuntahan.”

Deep Within the Ash Thicket

“I pass by every day on the same sturdy tree for almost 7 years. I wonder if it thinks the same way to me.”

The Eye

Clairvoyant

Kubli

“Not too much light....

It burns.”

“The cold wind brushing through my skin makes me feel warm.”

A Place of Cold Embrace

Descent, Ascent

“A temporary escape, perhaps?

You relish, because you know it will only be a fleeting experience.”

Point of Return

“This picture is all that you will remember in the universe that you’ve created.”

Climax

Mist

I dream of myself aboard a boat coursing through a riverbank that leads to nowhere. Traversing along, I reach the end where the waters stop. Then I would wake up forgetting what I’ve journeyed.

My Preferred Sun

This photobook was made from dreams I’ve had in the past months. In a seemingly endless waiting set in a world conditioned to be fast-paced, it is a challenge to cope, and a set of obscure images from a borrowed world becomes our refuge.

Our slumbers become the gateway to this universe we crave to have. For me, it is a place of tranquility with everything glowing, like shards of glass. To some, they are in different forms and representations, but the appearance of a mist will always be prominent.

An indication of the unreal made real. And to experience such even just for a while can soothe the heart and mind.

But while it effortlessly conjures the perfect images we long, these could never live up to the authenticity of reality.

Some inspirations for this photobook are the following:

Oda sa Wala by dir. Dwein Baltazar Ulan by dir. Irene Villamor

Heto na Naman by Rice Lucido.