For this project I am collaborating with Ruth. We have been looking into the theme of dreams and nightmares and the feelings that surround them.
Today has been a busy day trying to grasp the vast subject of dreams. I spent most of the day in the clay workshop making a dinosaur and then creating a two-part mould for it. I plan on making a baby's mobile with 4 wax dinosaurs hanging from it which are mealted and distorted to try to represent how dreams are not always complete or rational.
I ran into Stephen this afternoon who gave me some really good ideas. He suggested that because we are working in a collaboration we should try to force ourselves to have the same dreams. He also suggested intead of creating an object as a representation of something from a dream we have already had, we should create an item (such as my wax dinosaur) and then try to dream about it. If the dream changes the appearance of the object then we should try to create that as well. Then hopefully we should end up with a table of before and after, effectively becoming dream factories.
I've been researching the most common dreams tonight. Apparently the most common are:
being chased, missing an important event because you are late, finding yourself naked at work or school, falling, flying, losing your teeth and snakes.
I've never had a dream about a snake though, unless you count a long necked dinosaur.
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Aww i like the sound of all of that Stephen gave us some good ideas i like the sound of that i wonder how easy it is to make our selves dream about something i may try it tonight i think =]] i am getting materials to make me and you dream catcher tomorrow to have in our bedrooms to see if they really do stop us having nightmares. I will talk to you in crit studies anyway lol xxx
ReplyDeleteJust found this - thought it might be usefull - the 5 most common dreams explained
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- some forums about dreaming the same dreams as others too -
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080924082120AAQLWxa
- a famous man once said:"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask." - think it was Mulder of X-files fame
Remember the Audiences issue. Try to link ideas about personal practice with how that practice might be shown. Look at Duchamp's exhibition designs for the 1938 International Surrealist exhibition, held in the Gallerie des Beaux-arts, Paris. His use of coal sacks to create a low ceiling, low lighting levels and stringing whole areas of the space all contribute to a 'dream-like' space. Perhaps you should be investigating contemporary spaces and their possible transformation into appropriate spaces for your work.
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