Dream Catcher
SCULPTURE
I treasured my dream catcher as a child. I felt safer in the darkness of my bedroom, knowing she was holding my bad dreams for me. I have memories of jolting awake from a nightmare and quickly grabbing the dreams from my head and tossing them to her. When presented with the prompt of security through metal sculpture, my dream catcher was the first thing to come to mind. I wanted to describe this feeling of security through my dream catcher, keeping my bad dreams safely away from me, but also through a sense of security of friendship—the idea that what I gave to her stayed between the two of us.
Breakdown
This piece portrays a dream catcher with an industrial visual language, with locks and keys representing each dream that is held within. I wanted to take this industrial approach because, looking back on this tradition of mine, only giving my dreamcatcher my bad dreams feels as though I was burdening her. This reminds me of my interpretation of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and the idea of unbalanced relationships. Throughout this piece, there is a mix of shiny metal and slightly rusty matte metal with exposed welds, emphasising the juxtaposition of morality.
