Mankind’s ability to imagine has always fascinated me, I share the belief of artist Susan Hiller that it is an essential need to believe in the possibility of other worlds. As adults, we never shake the desire to escape to other fictional worlds, in fact the feeling intensifies but we channel it in more “mature” ways through films, books, video games etc...
Fabricating a microcosm in our minds and loosing ourselves inside it is what I call “Reverie” and is going to be my area of interest for the Final Major Project. My aim is to imagine a fantasy world built out of past and present fantasies. It would become my alter-reality, the gathering of thoughts that adulthood has forced me to dismiss as “mere daydreams”.
Concretely, for the next few weeks I will encourage myself to think like a child. I intend to write down my fantasies, record my thoughts and wonders. I expect this world to become a conglomeration of all that is irrational, intimate, eerie, dark and wonderful. I want to push how far our imagination can go before one slips into madness, and who knows if this new world might become my only reality? I expect to draw some interesting conclusions from this experience.
In order to have extraordinary fantasies I will return to places that trigger my imagination (my garden, the woods where I used to play) and visit new darker places that intrigue me today( The Imperial War Museum, prisons and even Soho’s notorious strip clubs).
Having gathered a collection of reveries the next stage will be creating visual representations – I am interested in exploring illustration, typography, book art, photography and film.
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