Rollins uses Cherenkov radiation (the blue glow created when particles from a nuclear reaction travel faster through water than light can travel through the dielectric of water) as a metaphor for dreams, sleep, aspiration, and freedom.

Video materials: Animation of photogram of the top view of an open-pool nuclear reactor looking down into the reactor and the Cherenkov radiation. Microscope video recordings of irradiated fruit, sliced into slides and dyed with blue slide ink. Waveforms and audio generated from 100 nights of the artist sleeping as recorded with the “Sleep Cycle” App, Video of the artist skating.

Audio: Audio generated from 100 nights of the artist sleeping as recorded with the “Sleep Cycle” App, linked together into one long waveform and then coded into sound using GNU Octave (sounds like static). Archival home video/audio recordings of the artist and her father discussing figure skating, video, and art, spanning a 24-year range. Shepard scales made from brief samples of music playing in the background of home video recordings. Recordings of conversation while listening to the Voyager Probes’ “Golden Record”. Recordings of discussions at CCRI Margaret M. Jacoby Observatory.

Installation: Bedsheets slept in while sleep was being recorded covered in salt and melatonin, light, fog, acetate, table.