THEY ARE DREAMING SERIES
2021-2025

"They are Dreaming" is part of a series of portraits, each person dreaming and aspiring towards a large life goal or principle. Some one off prints are also built up like a collage, from smaller elements which are also sold individually.

I wanted a project where I could explore the core ideas and values that people aspire to (normally dictated by society) visually.

I have a longstanding practice of collage. Collage for me is a revelatory process, as unexpected juxtapositions, and the reasons for the decisions I make while putting it together only start making sense towards the end, as the bigger picture gets built. It allows me to pursue my instinct, which ultimately reveals subconscious beliefs and ideas I may have through the final image. You can go to this blog where I have written about my collage practice, and discussed the history of collage and photomontage.

I approached this series in this way in order to slowly reveal to myself and the viewer what power, love, or money actually look like. By combining separate elements and symbols I believed represented power, money, change, hope or love, I hoped to unravel society's constructs when it comes to these themes (why am I drawn to the images I am choosing, and what do they look like together?), and inspire the viewer to ponder over what each of these concepts might actually look like for themselves.

Furthermore, are these things we should even be aspiring to? Arienne clearly already looks powerful to the viewer, Immie might  need to find love within herself, and Virgil looks possessed by his dreams of money.

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Read more about this series on the Artist blog.

limited edition linocut prints