{dREaM}

Working on this new series has gotten me thinking a lot about dreaming and daydreaming.  We've all heard Jung's views on dreams and how, according to him, they are a way by which we can communicate with the collective unconscious.  This concept of dream interpretation basically means that our dreams serve as a guide to offer solutions to problems or tribulations that we may be facing in our lives.  I have never really looked too far into my dreams and have certainly never made life decisions based upon them.  Actually, I take that back.  I'm sure that I have, I'm just not aware of it.  I've always been a bit jealous of people who have these amazingly vivid dreams where they fly and meet interesting, important people, etc.  Frankly, I've never been good at remembering my dreams.  If I don't talk about it right when I wake up, it's gone.  And my Nanny told me to never talk about my dreams until I've eaten breakfast because if you do, they might come true.  And as a person who can't watch a scary movie without having some kind of nightmare, I tend to keep my mouth shut. 


This series is moving into a direction that I'm having a lot of fun with.  First of all, the images that I'm creating are coming from a completely fictional story.  This leaves for quite a bit of wiggle room, but I don't want to go too crazy with that creative freedom.  I'd still like to end up with a somewhat cohesive,  sensible series of images.  So, where do I go from here?  This week I'll be exploring new ways of bringing the subtle, fuzzy qualities of dreams into my work and also taking a closer look into some of the shots from the last shoot that I quickly disregarded. 

This image is probably my favorite from last week's shoot.  The problem is, it doesn't fit perfectly into the series at the moment.  My goal is to make it fit.