on communal dreaming and the Point ✺
a rosie astral body is cradled between organic mirrored shapes made from continuous crossing lines
a lens is a point, a photo: a container, a gathering: a place to dream
sometimes i just love holding my camera up to a view to put it in some digestible space. to tighten the context and dimensionality for my sensing bodies to drink it in with more ease.
points are places from which line and form extend. points expand and contract. our universe is a series of points within points connected to points, and the space between.
I cohosted communal space with my beloved friend and fellow artist Quinn Hines in our local community garden last weekend. A Place To Dream: art show & photo party gathered us within art, dreaming, dreamscapes, magic, pleasure, celebration, and cocreation.
It’s becoming ever more apparent to me that we need deep spaces of dreaming and imagining new worlds and next metamorphoses ~ collective and podulated. i Love a good container. With a 12th house virgo sun i’m always dying for ways to contain, feel, and free (process) the details of my knowing and experience. and i crave still the bridges on which to share these understandings. There is existential loneliness living life with toes still swimming in the sky. I’m sure as i find my truer and truer earthlie expression, that feeling will melt into an existential connectedness; it already does. Two poles of a vast understanding that bring equally deep joy and sadness.
i crave to anchor dreaming. i crave to find the point. the point within the whole point, that i want to point to. that’s the thing about embodiment and choice; attention and intention.
There’s an animated movie called The Point made to the soundtrack of Harry Nilsson’s album of the same name. Everyone/thing in the town is pointy shaped but Oblio, this lil’ spherical weirdo that is outcast. And the whole time i’m thinking this buddy is the actual point and the rest of yall are cones right? Anyway the pointy society is very hierarchical, oppressive, and hostile to diversity or anything that is without ‘a point’ (meaning a purpose that they deem valid). :/ too familiar :/
The movie comically reiterates how it’s great medicine when there’s no point meaning no intention: play for play’s sake. (Then isn’t that it’s own point?) When we are open to being affected and transformed by our surroundings, we inevitably unearth underlying and collaborative points — of the cosmos and other earthlie entities. The influence of communal dreaming — a deep-rooted human technology, an anti-algorithm, a grow-rhythm. BIOQUANTUM COMPUTING. Answers/entanglements result that are different and greater than the sum of their parts.
Part of my spacemaking practice is clearing space, creating openness, inviting the conditions for transformation or connection. Another part is building space & structure for transformation and connection to occur. At A Place To Dream both of these spacemaking practices were activated. My series of Mirrored Dreamscapes for this show is viewable on my website. These explore duality and its resolution in the third, the point (the whole) represented by the centered astral bodies. New quantum images occur in the building of points into lines and lines into interacting forms. Contained within these images are my spiritual processings of the archetype of the lovers (tarot numerology theme for 2022) and the sometimes brutal nature of transformation and earth explorations.
Mirrored Dreamscapes watercolor paintings hang in in front of a red brick wall with climbing rose vines
Quinn Hines and friends commune in front of Quinn’s dreamy photography portraits (photoquinn.com)
closeup of Star Cycle: 3 successive Mirrored Dreamscapes ~ (arrival, expression, reflection)
2 iridescent bubbles float in front of 2 friends playing beneath a tree with hanging cloud sculptures