Oh, Then I See Queen Mab Hath Been With You

Oh, Then I See Queen Mab Hath Been With You
Inkjet Print
4′ x 6′

It all started with a dream. Introducing the someone else’s unfamiliar to my close and introspective subjectivity.

Textile artist Katrina Craig once dreamed she birthed spiders and cared for them as they grew and matured through the years. After finishing three sets of garments outlining the stages of creation in her dream she invited me to imagine each stage as a photograph, as a space in her dream.

Taken in the forest where we would walk, the images attempt to recreate the uncanny, the surreal and attempt to add my own instance of mapping the dreamscape onto the body. The garments are surrounded by a web of found images, the soft grey outlines of places I may have recognized, faces I may have seen, and in no particular order.

They say you cannot create faces in your dreams but are actively remembering the ones you have seen. By using images I found in the trash, or on public computers’ trash bins, I am attempting to introduce the familiar as unfamiliar; of somebody else’s world mapped onto someone else’s body, of my own viewpoint onto someone else’s dream.