The recurring dream.

Dreams are the unconscious parts of us. Freud viewed dreams as wish fulfillment, in contrast to Jung who looked at them as a form of self-actualisation. Of good and bad. Dreams are windows to our souls. I made a sound and performance piece centered around a recurring theme of trains.

While the sound piece was playing I sat behind a plinth and painted images from my dreams onto glass and perspex sheets. Trains represent ‘power’. In my dreams I am lost, chasing trains, being pulled in different directions. Life is out of control and I am ‘powerless’. When the sound piece finished I awoke from my dream, switched on the light and displayed my painted glass sheets in front of the plinth. I completed my performance by taking a print from one of the sheets of glass.