Dream, 2024

Description

A semi-abstract portrait of a reclining woman asleep, her dream thoughts unfurling into landscape. Washy layers culminate in detail, alluding to the blurred boundary between our dream world and subconscious thought, and our waking lives. 'Dream' explores the two realities we inhabit, in our waking life and in dream, in which our conscious minds melt away and we enter a state that is vivid and yet formless, tangible yet abstract, as if entering another dimension. We carry this subconscious narrative into our waking lives, like a distant memory. Just like Jung believed that dreams are a way for the unconscious mind to communicate with the conscious mind, so here the immersion of the artist into a free-flow state, allowing randomness and spontaneity to control the process before editing, allows the artist to tap into a deeper, untapped state of consciousness.