ARTIST STATEMENT
Dreams are an untouched, intricate and subconscious state of mind. We are not in control when we dream, we are at our most vulnerable. Have you woken up from your sleep without any memory of the dreams you had? 'The Dream Crawler’s Escape from Memory Lane' uses the contemporary context to alternatively represent this idea, where our dreams are personified creatures, in control of our memory of them. The concept of ‘art as alternate’ led me to use creative and pioneering approaches through the exploitation of newspapers to communicate the idea that this artwork itself is a dream-like nonsense representation.
ARTWORK PROCESS
In the developing stage of my artwork, I gained inspiration from Redmer Hoekstra’s whimsical artworks. His combination of shapes, animals and machines used to create new beings, provoked me to create representations of dreams with personified features. To clearly communicate the concept of dreams I required more than the creatures alone. This led me to introduce the pillow case; a symbol of sleep. The use of fabric hardener on the pillow case allowed for a stable hard shell where the creatures could appear to be climbing from the pillowcase, a symbol of our dreams escaping from our minds.
