Metaphoric dream analysis

TItle"Shift"

focus one of two mountains

sub focus plates of rock(dark grey)

sub focus =placement of rock plates/fit like puzzle piece

sub focus =area separating rock plates /white substance

sub focus=another mountain (whole)

 

MEANING OF ELEMENTS

                              

Mountain    elevation of earth surface rising/

rockplates      underlying from tetonic plate shift

( All mountains are formed by the movement of tectonic plates, which lie under the Earth's crust and upper mantle (the layer just below the crust). When tectonic plates move )… the plates move like that, changes happen in the geography of the world. 

white area    shift a change of position to held together by white

 

 

situation- 

US election primaries upcoming  11/8/22

Economy high, abortion main  on ballot

control of congress shift (11/2/22) to possibly republican

 

 

interpretation- I percieve an upcoming  shift geographically world wide and politically

. RB 11.7.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH CONTEXT OF PRACTICE (to review with DR Bowdidge)11-25-22

After reviewing the following Artist  I am drawn to investigate

their varying views in recieving and Interpreting 4th dimension phenomena thru dreams and there choice of creative expression.

 

Vassily Kandinsky-

A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of  Theosophy and esotericism as essential to understanding Kandinsky’s abstract paintings

 

JW Dunne -The first of the theoretical works, An Experiment with Time (1927), suggested that each of us may access the future while sleeping, and proposed a theory of ‘serial time’ to account for this capacity. Dunne urged training in dream precognition in order to develop neglected powers of humanity, and to prepare for ‘new conditions’ of the afterlife. Serialism was further articulated in The Serial Universe (1934), 

 

H KLIMT-

: By 1896, Hilma af Klint was meeting regularly with a group of four other women who sought to pursue a meaningful spiritual path via prayer, Bible study, and séances. The Five, or in Swedish, De Fem, as the women called themselves, believed that they communicated with beings of higher consciousness whom they called guides or High Masters.

Entering trance states, or using a device called a psychograph, which purportedly recorded psychic transmissions, the women documented the messages they received through automatic drawing and automatic writing. These methods, normal in spiritualist circles of the era, required the receiver to set aside conscious thought and trust in the message being conveyed. The receiver would then let the hand move freely to express whatever imagery or words came to mind.

Full of rhythmic and repetitive markings, The Five’s drawings show the women developing receptivity to a world of original imagery and abstract forms

 

 

 

C Burchfield-

Apr 13, 2018 - Jul 29, 2018Charles Burchfield wrote in his essay, "50 Years as a Painter," that he thought of the year 1915 as the true beginning of his art career[i]. Around the same time in Switzerland, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) began to compile what would later be known as TheRed Book.  

Starting in 1912 Carl Jung had a series of disturbing dreams that led to what he described as a “confrontation with the unconscious.[ii]” Visions of death and destruction, and rivers of blood led to a feeling of disorientation and concerns about a “psychic disturbance” within himself. In order to process the visions he consciously submitted himself to the impulses of his unconscious, which led him to an analysis of his childhood memories. During the summer of 1917, Burchfield was chiefly concerned with recording “childhood impressions.” He wrote in a manuscript later in life that “The summer of 1917 was (in retrospect) a long dream-like one, much of the time was given over to the re-creation of childhood memories and moods.”

Throughout his career Burchfield recorded more than a hundred dreams in his journals. He also created thousands of doodles which he called “a form of subconscious thinking in visual terms.” He went on to say that some of his most useful abstract motifs came from the practice. Carl Jung, while serving in the military during World War I in 1917, drew a series of twenty-seven mandalas in pencil in his army notebook. These drawings would later inspire the paintings that fill The Red Book, known to him as Liber Novus.

 

 

Tacita Dean-

Working “blind”, as she calls it, is virtually a mantra for Dean, and one that manifests in diverse ways. 

• Dean’s subjects typically arrive via a winding road of research full of unanticipated diversion and accident. She is motivated by curiosity, by her not knowing rather than by her predetermined intention. “I’ve always liked her lateralism – the way she comes at things,” Tim Marlow tells me. “If there’s a straight path between one point and another, she’ll question why it’s necessary to take that journey, and will find a different way to it, and will find interesting things along the way.”

 

Shaping my research-

11/25/22 My interest-

- The way these artist go about recieving and  recording there reception of imagery for there art practice( dreams, sketches,

memory)

-how they are or are not influenced by contemporay theorist of there time.

- the modes in which they chose to express