
About Project
COVID Dream Journal
Initially, I wanted to use this project to create a dream journal-- or, to create a visual archive of the weird dreams I've been having in quarantine. But, as I began to think about the dreams I've had, they didn't seem uniquely weird-- or, to put this another way, they were no weirder than my pre-covid dreams.
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That said, covid-- and especially, being a college student during covid-- did change how I sleep: now, I frequently wake up during dreams, fall back asleep, and drift back into an altered version of the dream I'd been having before I woke up.
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The pieces I created reflect a dream I had earlier this year, but they're more concerned with form than they are content-- or, they depict how I imagine my dreams after I wake up and fall back asleep: the overall image is the same, but every time I drift back into sleep, the format changes: something shifts. Eventually, I begin to wake up: around 8:30, the image begins to crack and distort. Eventually, I wake up and forget the dream until something triggers it: in this case, a butterfly.
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