sigh haha…only because lady Cleo is incredibly pretty (lol) am I posting something dealing with 'Obsessed' (don’t shoot me fellow art film buffs!)…oh..and this: “I’d say the worst thing about this film was the bad weave.” Love it.
What?...I like this comic strip...ctrl+alt+delete your opinions...
Quote of the Day: (from a new song im writing....dont ask lol...it makes sense when you hear it...for the faux rock group Hipster Kids and Waffles [coming this summer!])
My ode to In N Out...dedicated to: BusyBee Blog (via Twitter)
*ahem...clears recently eaten burger out of throat*
To in n out...my orgasm on a bun....
your secret menu...my hearts delight...health denies, claiming blind eye sighs...and me... here perfectly content with no sight at all... much like irony is gods humor, you put a tomato inside of you.... teasing the heartattack I so long for, as our coastal state recedes from the USA into missing time's door...I adore thee.... single, double- double....can't stop at one...would die for forty...my stomach sleeps at your feet.....
Introducing someone to a Nina Simone classic while watching the reaction? Priceless.
Quote of the Day: "If your skin becomes looser with age, than you are one step closer to becoming a floating, brittle butterfly, a skeleton, free of the prejudices that bind you from the world. Scars will be laid open wider than a child's smile, for all to revel in."
"Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary."
– Paul Beatty
As an artist, at least seventy-five percent of my current days are spent daydreaming—usually aware of the constant leaps between each side of the fence.Unfortunately, approaching is the five year anniversary of the last sleeping dream that I remember. Since then I’ve been trying to figure out why and recently, given the academic opportunity, I was able to delve deeper into the roots of art, dreams, and the creations that are produced when you blend one with the other with hopes that maybe an answer lies within.
Before focusing on the dreams of other artist and mine, I wondered what the academic approach on dreams that inspire and positively or negatively affect dreams. A doctor I met not long after finding out about this project told me that even though dreams weren’t his specialty that dreams in the most general sense are rooted in an experienced reality. Artistically the same would apply, something you’ve experienced before could be recalled or even altered in your mind (example: if you see a strange tree, in a dream the tree could be a monster, but is still based on something you’ve experienced in reality). The (considered) two most important minds in dream related psychology Sigmund Freud ( the father of psychoanalysis) and Carl Jung (creator of Jungian therapy) had two very differing opinions on art and its relationship with dreams. Sigmund Freud believed that the source of all art finds its source in the artist’s own neuroses. Neuroses in terms of art and Freud referred to negative experiences that the artist had dealt with in their past, and were now expressing as a piece of art. Carl Jung believed that it isn’t necessarily negative
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experiences that are the sources of art, but a wide range of past experiences (positive and negative) as well as the surroundings of the artist which allow the artist to create pieces Jung called “visionary.”The academic importance of art and dreams doesn’t just contain itself to discussions between psychologists but has created some solid results. Science and technology have both pushed ideas in dream related art into creations of reality. The human anatomy has throughout history been a subject of interest for artist, who have since the beginning of time been giving their interpretations of the inner and outer structure of the human body. Unlike Leonardo Da Vinci , who dissected dead animals to create his anatomy sketches, many artist used their imaginations to contribute to the field of anatomy. From the 16th century to the 18th century, human anatomy went from mostly a mystery to becoming one of the core subjects in many international academies.Many novels and films have had science fiction themes such as spaceships, planes, and radio-like devices in their stories before these inventions were even created. Dreams even inspire art for artistic academic purposes. A former drama teacher of mine had a collection of dreams while struggling in real life to create or find the perfect play for us to perform. In these dreams were an assembly of short pieces that later became the play we performed with much success.
If dreams are based on former experiences, then what keeps us dreaming (or hinders us from dreaming)? Well, many things apparently. While there are no sure ways to document the root of a dream, many factors do affect your ability to dream. Most popularly, dreams act as a way to solve our problems from when we’re awake or our “waking life.” They allow us to not only create solutions but also allow us to travel through these situations with the ability to act in ways that you wouldn’t in your waking life. Our dreams are influenced toward these situations because
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we spend the most time thinking about them in our waking life. When we sleep, our mind will continue its focus on these situations, often creating dreams or nightmares relevant to the current or past situation that was on our mind. When we are stressed, we can suffer from a decrease in remembering our dreams as well as finding less creative solutions in our dreams. Rushing your sleep or sleeping for a shorter amount of time than recommended for your age can also contribute to a decrease in remembering your dreams.According to GradPsych Magazine dreams play an important part in our everyday lives sharing the same traits: creating consistent creativity.They say that “being happy” and “dreaming about problems in life” often create creative solutions.
The affect of dreams on art is not restricted to any one genre of art but applies to them all quite handily.Novelists often have dreams that become classic tales with metaphorical meanings (Frankenstein/The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley) or detailed visions of a life not your own ([as mentioned in The Committee of Sleep] Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge). Even children’s novels like Stuart Little by E.B. White was seen first in a dream she had. A countless number of songs (vocals and music) have been inspired by dreams. The creation of design plans and architectural techniques have been influenced by dreams as well. Building houses and buildings using new curves and letter/number influenced designs were bits of creativity needed once architects dreamt up innovative ways to create. The influence of dreams on art in film and painting (also on my obsession with both) has been so grand that each type of art form receives a section dedicated just to them below.
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The very beginnings of paintings are believed to be based on dreams. Cave paintings done tens of thousands of years ago depicting dreams of people living then are considered the first art works to be discovered by man.Many of my personal influences have been inspired by dreams. Francisco Goya, who’s Black Paintings may be my favorite fine art collection, was a serial dreamer (or nightmarist). Many of his paintings dealt with current social commentary and in his many bouts of depression he believed that the best way to solve the problems of nightmares would be to get them out of his mind and in the real world. The Committee of Sleep mentions how the great American painter Jasper Johns couldn’t figure out who he wanted to be as an artist deciding instead to just do art rather than focus on what kind. Soon after he had a dream about himself and him painting American flags. He is still known for these paintings today. I consider myself a semi-surrealist, so it seems natural that the Surrealist movement would be the biggest benefactor of dreams availability and influence on art. The very basis of the surrealist movement according to the creator Andre Breton is a “resolution of the two states, dreaming and reality, which are so seemingly contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality—a surreality.”This expression of all things eccentric, absurd, and unfiltered became known as the Surrealist movement. It was more common to be influenced by dreams in surrealist paintings and art than it was to not be influenced by them. Perhaps the greatest known of surrealist painters, Salvador Dali, used and even controlled his dreams to create widely popular paintings such as Flesh Wheelbarrow and The Persistence of Memory. Salvador Dali and the surrealists were the first artists to fully embrace and make a method of Lucid Dreaming, where you realize you are dreaming and begin to control the dream to your liking. Dali even wrote a manual to how to succeed at being an artist using his techniques. The surrealists were big supporters of
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psychoanalysis for making the field of dreams a more popular study internationally. Being able to find a form of expression where you can be and create the things that our moral and learned minds withhold makes surrealism an important part of my life, with or without remembered dreams.
An even larger part of my life is film. I’ve been acting since the sixth grade and very often playing a role is reminiscent of a dream in its out of body delivery. My favorite three directors have all been influenced greatly by the subject of dreams. Hungarian director Bela Tarr , who unlike the other two director creates very realist works, makes films that play out like exhausting epics of surrealist dreams with their rhythm. His most surrealist, dream-like film Werckmeister Harmonies deals with economics and unity among towns in a way that seems to be real and unreal all at once, the camera takes very few breaks, continuously similar to a swaying movement. Michel Gondry, the popular French director, does films that evoke very Mannerist emotions of joy, love, and life using handmade props and images from dreams to tell his stories. Dreams are everywhere in The Science of Sleep, where the main character host a one man talk show inside of his own head while trying to hide his quirks just enough to impress a girl. My favorite director and my biggest influence is David Lynch, an American film maker, who specializes in creating dream scenarios breaking our expectations of ideal American life.His two most recent “masterpieces” Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive both concern the idea of Hollywood with underlining themes ranging from feminism to expectations of others. The beauty of these films is that they’re either viewed as a collection of unintelligible segments or as dreams within dreams within never ending dreams. Film critic Ed Gonzalez put it “a film-within-a-hallucination-within-a-film-within-so-on, and the story of love affairs that span the boundaries
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of time, space, and reason.” Characters go from dream to “reality” which may very well be a dream also without warning.The titles even show their dream influence, Mulholland Drive is known in California as “the boulevard of broken dreams” and Inland Empire, which doesn’t refer to the location (although it was filmed there) as much as it does to the idea that the world of your dreams is your empire inside. Films and dreams work so well together because watching a movie is the closest we come to seeing dreams of ourselves and the creators. Made to be viewed in the dark, films provide a very personal experience into the mind. Again, surrealist made a point of acknowledging this with the great director Luis Bunuel (he made his first film with surrealist great Salvador Dali)’s films depicting our fears and inhibitions on the screen. Many of the world’s most famous directors from Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman to John Sayles and Brian DePalma have used dreams as sequences in their films.
Since most of my influences embrace dreams, I continued to wonder why I couldn’t remember mine. To see if anyone else related to this, I asked many of my artistic friends (paid professionals and not) whether dreams had a great affect or their artwork. The first source I went to is a person I’d consider my closest friend in the art world Alex. He’s a musician located in Southern California. We often share ideas during our infamous No Sleep Thursdays, feeding off of one another’s creativity. His response to my inference on dreams was:
“Dreams in my life are like that of many others. Sometimes they can be vivid or re-occurring, yet sometimes seemingly random & enigmatic. Applied to what I do as an artist, I’d say I try to apply all that I desire in a dream to my life’s goals, because most of the time they are a manifestation on said goals. Not to make a dream come true, but to realize that I had wanted
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and then dreamt about what I would accomplish in my future's present. To answer the question more directly, the dreams to me are motivation and a foretelling of what I can become if I do all the right things, get lucky, and have the roulette wheel ball land in my favor. To me its cliche to "Make a dream come true", however I don’t see dreams as something to be had as much as an apex I wish to pass. The dream is a starting point, not the finish line.”
Another friend of mine Luis Bobadilla, a poet, photographer, and painter has a slightly different take on dreams:
Well, I believe that dreams inspire art by allowing one to mesh and distort reality based on what the subconscious mind reveals. At times, the intuitions, fantasies, goals, and infatuations that one might not ordinarily be able to consciously express may become apparent in a dream. Often times an artist can creatively lock onto a facet of said dream and cull some of the most inspirational concepts not previously explored.
The unconscious mind, through dream stasis, unlocks in all of us, a hidden personality or untapped portion of our reality that we would otherwise be unaware of, or afraid to acknowledge.
Alex uses dreams to remain focused on realities possibilities while Luis uses dreams to find in himself possibilities that he can’t find in reality, almost an opposite effects on the both of them. When I remembered my dreams I used them as a way to relive past situations with different results. The beauty of asking my friends this question was that the majority (another 4 artist)
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were under the same dream status as me. They don’t remember many dreams, and most of their influence is in daydreaming. Going back to David Lynch, he once said: "A lot of people assume I have very strange dreams, but I've only had one dream that affected a film. I don't dream much at night. Most everything is daydreams." and Edgar Allen Poe was quoted saying in "Eleonora": “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” This made me realize that I should focus less on why I’m not having dreams I can remember at night, and that I should focus harder on the material that comes to me during daydreams. Daydreams are inescapable in my life, so following this path will be beneficial to my productivity I believe. “Many scientist,” according to the Boston Globe believethat “they've demonstrated that daydreaming is a fundamental feature of the human mind - so fundamental, in fact, that it's often referred to as our "default" mode of thought. Many scientists argue that daydreaming is a crucial tool for creativity, a thought process that allows the brain to make new associations and connections.” Maybe, daydreams should’ve been my focus all along.
After searching for an answer I didn’t find, much like a dream itself, while not understood during the process can produce quite a beautiful product. I believe that dreams have different effects on different artists but I think it I can surely say that the effects they do have are essential to the whole of the artist. The wonderful dichotomy that creativity presents to human beings is that when it comes we can embrace it as it is or alter it to fit who we are. In honor of this my next work will be a non-dream dream collection of phrases that pop in my head during daily daydreams and hopefully when all combined create something meaningful.
References Page:
1.The Committee of Sleep: How Artist, Scientist, and Athletes Use Dreams For Creative Problem Solving – and How You Can Too, Deirdre Barrett (Ph.D.), 2001
[This book was one of my two most important sources. The main point I retrieved from this book is that many artist outside of Surrealism have based their entire careers on the results of their dreams. The comprehensive amount of dreams from all the art forms really helped make this paper complete.]
2.Our Dreaming Mind, Robert L. Van De Castle (Ph.D.), 1994
[The differences in opinion between Freud and Jung are presented in this book. Also, a very detailed collection of dreams from important people throughout history.]
[This is one of the initial influences where I realized a lot of people base their artwork on dreams. They have annual conferences that deal just with that topic.]
8.“Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary," Paul Beatty, Slumberland (novel), June 10, 2008
[The quote sums up coming to grips with your mind and many more things to me]
[The history of human anatomy is displayed here done by and influenced by artist throughout history.]
10.Manifesto of Surrealism, Andre Breton, 1924
[Aside from personal influence, the definitions of surrealism needed for the report. A form of art that incorporates dreams more fully than any other.]
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