Inspired by Goya’s work, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” I wanted to explore the interplay between the imagination and rational thought. I sought to free fantasy from reason, creating dream-like atmospheres representing the subconscious. I created human-like forms that become increasingly monstrous and then disappear as I move further into the irrational and abstract. Numbers, and later on ribbon and yarn, represent logical, mathematical thinking. In image 6, I added cotton fibers to create a dream-like separation from reality, and continued to experiment more with texture. I retroactively added fibers to previous pieces better illustrate the altered state I was trying to represent. After Image 10 I stopped using recognizable imagery to create a more abstract version of fantasy and started moving away from using numbers as representation of the rational. Instead, I began to experiment with the rigid shapes of ribbon and yarn to contrast the cotton fibers and organic shapes in my pieces. In my last piece I used knitting as a measured pattern to represent the rational, contrasting with abstract, irrational shapes.