Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form
Concrete, Steel, Found objects
90”x 135”x 100”
2020
I am the reclining figure, an abstraction of material.
Why is it that my hand moves through the other?
As my pupils swim in delusions, I float barefoot through the darkness.
What did he say? I mean the man in the box...but then again was it me who was talking?
I walk the path to within.
People sit in chairs above me, playing tennis with the other.
What is true when nothing makes sense but everything is real?
Then again...what is truth when art is subjective?
The vibrations tell me everything.
They speak to me in a language that I've known for the longest time, or until my eyes are filled with light once more.
Static noises in a box.
The vacuum is silent cleaning the room, it sucks the moonlight from the sky.
The light fills the box.
I enter the Artistic Realm.
Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form visualizes the abstract concept of being in a dream. When we dream we enter a reality removed from the one inhabiting us when we are awake. The dream reality operates within our subconscious mind, speaking to us in a language constructed by forgotten memories and our unrestricted imagination. Looking back at the events of a dream often results in confusing recollections of stories far removed from reality, although while in the dream we never question the authenticity of the story. How is it that we can subconsciously be involved in such an unlikely situation and accept it in its entirety, as truth? This state of mind is the subject of Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form. I want the viewer unable to understand exactly what they are seeing, but question why its existence makes sense. When the viewer is involved with this visual and audible experience I want them to feel joyful, overwhelmed, and afraid by a cacophony of sounds and visuals immersing them. Through crossing this abstraction of a reality into our own, I hope to create my own visual language that mimics “the language“ of the dream reality.
Concrete, Steel, Found objects
90”x 135”x 100”
2020
I am the reclining figure, an abstraction of material.
Why is it that my hand moves through the other?
As my pupils swim in delusions, I float barefoot through the darkness.
What did he say? I mean the man in the box...but then again was it me who was talking?
I walk the path to within.
People sit in chairs above me, playing tennis with the other.
What is true when nothing makes sense but everything is real?
Then again...what is truth when art is subjective?
The vibrations tell me everything.
They speak to me in a language that I've known for the longest time, or until my eyes are filled with light once more.
Static noises in a box.
The vacuum is silent cleaning the room, it sucks the moonlight from the sky.
The light fills the box.
I enter the Artistic Realm.
Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form visualizes the abstract concept of being in a dream. When we dream we enter a reality removed from the one inhabiting us when we are awake. The dream reality operates within our subconscious mind, speaking to us in a language constructed by forgotten memories and our unrestricted imagination. Looking back at the events of a dream often results in confusing recollections of stories far removed from reality, although while in the dream we never question the authenticity of the story. How is it that we can subconsciously be involved in such an unlikely situation and accept it in its entirety, as truth? This state of mind is the subject of Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form. I want the viewer unable to understand exactly what they are seeing, but question why its existence makes sense. When the viewer is involved with this visual and audible experience I want them to feel joyful, overwhelmed, and afraid by a cacophony of sounds and visuals immersing them. Through crossing this abstraction of a reality into our own, I hope to create my own visual language that mimics “the language“ of the dream reality.
The making of Sculpture of a Dream Taking Form
The majority of my all start with sketches in my sketchbook, and I don't think about designing something practical or realistic, I just see where my creativity takes me.
The majority of my all start with sketches in my sketchbook, and I don't think about designing something practical or realistic, I just see where my creativity takes me.
These were other sketches I had for the project.
This is documentation of the molds I made to be cast in concrete and the beggining stages of fabricating the sculpture.
Below is documentation of Hurricane Zeta knocking over the first "draft" of this sculpture. It was frustrating but it gave me a chance to see the flaws in my original design. After getting it back up and fixing it on the crane, the sculpture actually turned out beter than it was before the huricane hit it.