Dream Carpets     I     2020-2022

The woven cloak or carpet with its designs is often used as a symbol for the complex symbolic patterns of life and the secret designs of fate. Dreams and the unconscious tell more about our life pattern, helping to fulfil our destiny rather than resisting it…    (M.L. von Franz - The Interpretation of Fairy Tales)

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The Dream-Carpets series takes this notion of the carpet as a metaphor for life’s hidden structure as its conceptual foundation. Drawing on Jungian psychology and the writings of Marie-Louise von Franz, the works consider dreams and the unconscious as carriers of knowledge that reveal the deeper patterns shaping human existence—patterns that can only be grasped from a distance, through reflection rather than control.

Rather than depicting reality directly, these paintings function as secondary, appropriated images. Overlapping symbolic forms and dreamlike fragments are woven into layered, carpet-like compositions, where individual motifs lose their autonomy and become part of a larger, shifting structure. The imagery refers to the secret design beneath fleeting actions and decisions—an underlying order sensed rather than consciously known.

The surface offers only a partial view, with earlier layers receding into a depth that can never be fully reached. In this way, the Dream-Carpets embody the tension between revelation and concealment, offering glimpses of an inner pattern that can never be fully uncovered, only intuitively felt.