What is Dream Space?
A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep.
“Dream”. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000.
Dream space is the chance to create a space which is achieved by discovering your imagination and combining it with your dreams. It could be any space, anywhere, anything or even any person, it all depends on how you perceive it.
Dreams are sometimes very structured and other times they are not, they can symbolise journeys, hidden emotions, suppressed thoughts, be a wish your heart makes and can also be a repeated vision you’ve already had. You can find yourself so wrapped up in them that you don’t realise that it is not real, until you wake up.
TUESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER
Working as a Group, we have started off by creating a mind map, consisting of all our ideas and thought about how we interpret dreams and how we would visually display it, creating one 2D piece and one 3D piece. First off we started exchanging ideas and seeing how we could merge all the opinions together, it took a while to figure out how to do this as we had many ideas such as buildings, dream catchers, brain waves, fantasy, bad dreams combined with good dreams, having dreams within dreams and so many more imaginitive ideas.
After using our mind map to help begin our creative process we started discussing our favourite ideas and began combining them all together to create a visual idea of ‘Dream Space’. The ideas we came up with varied in how we would lay out our design and which medium we would use to create it. Finally we started to come up with one final idea, which consisted of everyones input.
We decided to use the idea of viewing your dreams and looking into your soul with your eyes, so we did a rough design which consisted of a set of eyes which had the reflection of buildings inside it, the buildings represented the idea of the construction of a dream and all the parts it is made up of, we decided to make the buildings fade out into nothing which was influenced by ‘Sunga Park’ who is a Korean graphic designer, she creates her drawings in a way which makes you to imagine what would be there, just like a dream, sometimes we have to image how it ended, or when dreams just fade out into another.
We wanted to include the idea of catching good dreams in a dream catcher and then also catching bad dreams, however because the majority of us remember more of our bad dreams than good, we thought if we used the idea of a bottle this would allow us to represent how the bad dreams can’t escape from the bottle or ourselves.
3D DESIGN
When it came to the 3D model which linked to our drawing, we had several ideas however they did not exactly represent or link to our drawing ideas, it took us a little while to think of an idea to go with. After speaking to Colin, we had a more focused idea as he helped us understand the link needed between both parts. Our initial idea was to create a 3D cube out of wire, which we would then weave thread around, using black thread to represent bad dreams and white to represent good dreams, it was to show the idea of how dreams are a constructed mess of feeling and emotions, however this idea has now expanded into constructing a tunnel of threads which can be manipulated into different forms. Because we needed a closer link between each design, we chose the stick with the threads as they resemble the membranes within a eyes pupil.
Peta-Louise Krog 