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Washing Hands
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Artist Statement: Your Dreams and Omens Revealed
Humans have always attempted to pull back the veils obscuring the future. We peek inside the
soothsayer's parlor and gaze through the curtains which hide the cards laying on the table. The patterns
of our future shimmer as predictions of the events which will either ravage or embrace our lives. These
are the cards we draw when we pick up the deck. No card is alike. No deck the same. Yet because we
share the same chance of the draw we are bound together, suspended in the picture albums of all the
worlds.
During the early 20th century, dream books became very popular. They were an odd compendium of
dream images, superstitions and omens along with their symbolic meanings. Gathered from both historical
custom and tradition as well as individual insight and interpretation, they were used to forecast and
predict the future, as well as understand the past. Seen as primitive lists and summaries as well as
sophisticated presentations of Jungian-like dictionaries of
symbolic objects and ideas, the dreams and omens were seen to reflect and represent (symbolically) our
life and it's place in the cosmos.
Drawing on inspiration from my collection of these early dream books that were produced to advertise
patent medicines, I use both digital and traditional photographic techniques to produce Dreams and Omens
as 20"x 24" Polaroid Image transfers printed onto fabric.
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Ears
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Knives
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