Nightmares Are Dreams Too

A KALTBLUT exclusive. Photography by Lavina Solomonova. Creative Direction & Model is Caleb Budd at Crawford Models. Art Direction & Styling by Iryna Li. Hair & Make up by Dana Arcidy. Fashion Brands used are Ottolinger, Diesel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Corban Harper, Comme Des Garçons. This visual story delves into themes of vulnerability and entrapment, offering an introspective lens on the duality of dreams and nightmares.

Claws on the hardwood
Scratching
Anxious for another piece of this lifeless body
Lying
Sprawled out like a dying bird
Asking
How it didn’t see the coming train
The rail cars of bone
Stabbed out its spiny back
Hunching
Forming a cage with its withered body


Starving
Hungry for a taste of my pain
Wondering
How it can play with me tonight
The rag doll of bone
Broken from too much fun
Gasping
Desperate for breath in this collapsing body
Sinking
Like a bed of waning lilies
Crunching
From the weight of monstrous feet
The sweet sound of bone
Echoing in its hollow head
Staring
Not hearing a word from my hopeless body
Ignoring
All but my cry to be free
Pleading
For the end of my pitiful life
The jail cell of bone
Marked from its punishment
Stopping
Only to let air refill my vacant body


Knowing
The game ends with me
Questioning
How one can be so weak

The fragility of bone
Not lost to its memory
Returning
With markless ways for this willing body
Laughing
To the beat of my tears
Knowing
This won’t be believed
The fairy tale of bone
Making me fear my sleep


Cowering
At the lingering thoughts of that filthy body
Rolling
In the dirt of fruitless journeys
Masking
The dried blood of those before
The graveyard of bone
Ready for my overdue arrival
Beaming
As I feel the cold life leave my flaccid body
Filling
With a great rush of joy
Soaring
Towards that bright flash
The pale white of bone
Interrupted by a low noise
Cackling
At the sore sight of my mangled body
Realizing
I had only been put to sleep
Weeping
For this isn’t the end

Photography by Lavina Solomonova / Instagram: @lavina.s
Art Direction & Styling by Iryna Li / Instagram: @l_i_r_a_
Creative Direction & Model is Caleb Budd at Crawford Models / Instagram: @calebbudd_
Hair & Make up by Dana Arcidy / Instagram: @danaarcidy

Fashion Brands used are: Ottolinger, Diesel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Corban Harper, Comme Des Garçons
Instagram name of each brand: @ottolinger1000@diesel@jeanpaulgaultier@corbanharper@commedesgarcons