In my dreams this morning I was making artwork in ways that don’t exist irl..
I was making artwork on a special type of paper was sort of like how one makes cyanotypes, but the work came out like a mix between photocopy, photogram, and photography— but in shades of lavender, the way a cyanotype is blue— and somehow no matter what I placed on the paper, which was a regular sized 8.5”x11”, it fit.. the test print I made in my dream was like a photogram bc I had somehow laid down on the 8.5”x11” paper on my side w my arm raised above my head, my hand shaped like half a heart, but the paper/image caught the different details of my body is a very slightly pixelated sort of way, like a photocopier would, and also caught the whole wood planked ceiling and other background stuff like the way a photo would, which I wasn’t expecting but felt grateful to understand— like I had learned something in that moment— so I know now that I was doing tests of how the paper/material worked.
Then I dipped the paper in a tray, the way one would dip a photo paper in darkroom chemicals, but it was just water and it wasn’t dark— so the way one would develop a cyanotype— and the developed image was different shades of lavender— the way a cyanotype would be different shades of blue.
As I was making the work, in my dream I was also thinking about how I make images in general, and how I fracture and collide and blend and glitch an rework— over and over— and I was doing this in preparation for a talk I’m giving on Sunday (IRL) about the work that I currently (IRL) have in an exhibit in Chinatown in LA.
When I woke up I realized it was all a dream and was immediately annoyed that I cannot actually make artwork in this way.
But— I can definitely use what I was thinking about for my talk on Sunday, in my actual talk on Sunday! 1 reply
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