‘Kaleidoscope of Dreams’, 2009-2010

By cinematographic and photographic means of expression and by interchanging the faceless figures with fragments of space, I tried to depict to the viewer the experience of a lucid dream. Technically, I used digital technology supported by an old Meopta’s Flexaret camera mat focusing board (the TTV technique), which played the role of “projection canvas” for the scenes I constructed in front of the lens to make them more somnolent. These dream sections represent fragments of memories, vague visions of faceless characters, and spaces that we encounter. They are reminiscences of the day, of our childhood, and our short-term memory. I explore, “capture” that elusive déjà vú moment in which everything we see and experience seems so familiar, as if we have already lived through that same scenario. Although strange and uncanny, we are aware of the “freshness” and actuality of the experienced, and through our colletive memory, we find adequate interpretations. We might find the underlying pattern in this random and accidental imagery. This body of work offers insight into just one possible dream scenario… It is without a possessor; it floats freely throughout the hypnotic universe of reveries. Maybe this time it is mine, some other time it will be yours, somebody’s, everybody’s…

To see the video accompanying this body of work click HERE.