Dreamland

This is my final project for Chuck's Creative Inquiry class.  It is a work in progress.

Illustrating my dreams has been something I have wanted to do for a long time now.  I have had an idea in my head ever since I saw these tall panels with bird drawings covered in wax in the MoFA my freshman year.  I have recorded my dreams ever since the sixth grade, and they have been piling up in a folder that I have taken to school with me.  The unconscious mind is something that I find so fascinating and I am wanting to incorporate it into my work and more and more.  Because my work deals with the idea of self so much, I think that dreams are something that should be constantly considered in my creating.  

I had been wanting to create a quilt-like collage of text and illustration.  This is a project that I wanted to include in both of my BFA applications—which obviously did not happen—so I was super excited to finally have the motivation to take on this huge project. 

 

 Ideally, I would like this to hang from the ceiling and be at least three feet longer.  Also, I would love for the other side to be quilted together so that the viewer is able to walk around the piece.  I'd like it to have much more weight to it, which I think will be accomplished with the reverse side and perhaps some coats of wax. 

Ink and watercolor on vellum and printmaking paper & embroidery

30"x68" (thus far)