Figurative Dreamscapes     I     2017-2018
 

Ever since C. G. Jung’s extensive unconscious-mapping work, it has been widely accepted that dreams are the utterance of the unconscious. Many people regard dreams as a negligible by-product of the psyche. But if we consider that almost the half of our lives is passed in a more or less unconscious state, it may encourage us to start discovering the realm of dreams.

 

In 2017/18 I have painted dreamscapes, based on my own dreams. Immersion in dream analysis made it possible for me to see dream images and later every other image, from the perspective of dream analysis. This made me to develop a dream representation based method, making real images dreamlike by moving them from reality into the unconscious, oneiric realm; in an attempt of an authentic portrayal of the unconscious.