Installations
Diurnal Emissions aims to explore the realm of the subconscious in a two-fold
process:
a) through the act of collecting and documenting nighttime dreams by the exercise of jotting down all that can be remembered from the previous night during the first few seconds of consciousness of every new morning,
and
b) through the act of trying to recreate and recount aspects of this daily documentation into a tangible, visual, illustrated form through a series of ink drawings.
The project is contradictory; although the illustrated snapshots of dreams are born from an unreliable, unstable, incomprehensible, illogical domain—the subconscious—the process of illustrating dreams is achieved by employing the conscious state. The conscious self serves to make sense of that which does not make sense, tries to make organized that which has no order, tries to make tangible that which is ethereal, tries to make permanent that which is ephemeral. Conscious and deliberate choices are made during the dream-representation process/art-making process despite how the images’ first appearances to me are completely uncalculated and uncontrolled.
a) through the act of collecting and documenting nighttime dreams by the exercise of jotting down all that can be remembered from the previous night during the first few seconds of consciousness of every new morning,
and
b) through the act of trying to recreate and recount aspects of this daily documentation into a tangible, visual, illustrated form through a series of ink drawings.
The project is contradictory; although the illustrated snapshots of dreams are born from an unreliable, unstable, incomprehensible, illogical domain—the subconscious—the process of illustrating dreams is achieved by employing the conscious state. The conscious self serves to make sense of that which does not make sense, tries to make organized that which has no order, tries to make tangible that which is ethereal, tries to make permanent that which is ephemeral. Conscious and deliberate choices are made during the dream-representation process/art-making process despite how the images’ first appearances to me are completely uncalculated and uncontrolled.