Communicating Vessels - Polar Environment

Charcoal Drawing 

(not a very good photograph)

Communicating Vessels - Being Human

Lucid Dreams to Virtual Reality

Lucid dreams/Waking life allows you to be awake within your dreams which surrealists studied, however in the modern world with digital technology, are our lucid dreams becoming digitalized within the possibilities of Virtual reality? Being in a world where anything is possible and the restrictions of the world are no longer an obstacle. 

Is this the extended world of Lucid Dreams?

Digital Environment's Elective:

"Some of the topics brought up to day did however further my opinion of how digital is becoming dangerous, such as HAPTIC, where the physical feedback from a virtual world can be felt. Where is this next going to take us? Where we can not differentiate from reality and virtual? Not in the near future but what I think we must be cautious about is that it can happen and we as human beings could loose the effectiveness of being in reality, therefore loosing the joys of being alive. The question pressed: "What is living?" or "What is life?" 

Could we live our lives virtually (already slowly happening on facebook) and still say that we have lived?"

Communicating Vessels

Diego Rivera

"Communicating Vessels"

"Waking Life"

With the final piece now chosen for the Magic Museum brief the print "Communicating Vessels" from the exhibition Mexican Prints 1910-1960 in the British Museum. It was inspired by Andre Breton, a French wrier, poet and surrealist theorist, on his visit to Mexico, where the title refers to an essay that Breton had published in 1932. The essay refers to the interaction between the life of dreams and waking life in terms of the ebb and flow of fluid between two containers. Below "Waking life" a film which discovers different aspects of dreams and the restrictions and the polar aspect of being in control and awake in your dreams, being able to control. To ask yourself "is this a dream?" whilst still asleep.