‘Kaleidoscope of Dreams’, 2009-2010

By the cinematographic and photographic means of expression and by interchanging the faceless figures with the fragments of the 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 part of “projection canvas” for the scenes I constructed in front of the lens and made them more somnolent. These dream sections are representing fragments of memories, vague visions of faceless characters, and spaces that we encounter; they are symbols of unconscious fluctuations of the human mind. They are reminiscences of the day, of our childhood, and our short-term memory. I wanted to explore, to “capture” that elusive déjà vú moment in which everything we see and experience seems so familiar. As we already lived through that same scenario. Although strange and uncanny, we are aware of the “freshness” and actuality of the experienced and through our eclectic memory, we find adequate interpretations. By re-examination of pragmatic experiences and by subtle play with spectators’ senses, I wanted to explore the mechanisms of human subconsciousness and make them read through the layers of their personalities. By invoking subconscious currents we might find the underlying pattern in this random and accidental imagery. This body of work offers insight into just one possible dream version, a scenario subordinated to changes… 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.