Traumgedanken
Maria Fischer“The book “Traumgedanken” (‘Thoughts on dreams’) contains a collection of literary, philosophical, psychological and scientific texts which provide an insight into different dream theories.
To ease the access to the elusive topic, the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story, it brings different text excerpts together. They are connected by threads which tie in with certain key words. The threads visualise the confusion and fragility of dreams.
On five pages there are illustrations made out of thread. Their shape and color relies on the key words on the opposite page. This way an abstract image of the dream about dreaming is generated.
In addition there are five pages where a significant excerpt from a text of the opposite page is stitched into the paper. It is not legible because the type’s actual surface is inside the folded page. This expresses the mysteriousness of dreams and the aspect of dream interpretation.”
Re: Collection
How do we collect our memories? How do we read our thoughts? Is memory capable of prohibiting the human imagination, or can imagination exist within the thoughts that we collect in a lifetime? "Re: Collection" is an upcoming exhibition of student art at the University of Ottawa that explores the concepts of memory as a collection and the mind as a labyrinth of infinite possibilities.
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