Unseen Memories
Medium: Digital illustration, digital collage, paper, waxed thread, composition notebook
Sometimes it can be difficult to pull from memories; time will pass, and details begin to fade. Maybe there isn’t enough physical evidence to prove it even existed in the first place. Yet you know these memories are real; these images and feelings continue to reside within your head yet sit just out of reach. It’s always been difficult for me to pull from my memory, so I’d often find that evidence to see what I couldn’t. This project instead goes in a different direction, for I decided to pull from memories that never had any evidence to begin with.
Dreams have been something I’ve worked with before and have loved to create illustrations from. Using my writing and the brief imagery I have in my head, I can only rely on my own recall to create the atmosphere, landscape, and characters that existed within the narrative. This project is a combination of my fascination with memories, dreams, and the creation of stories and figures.
Pulling from the visual of a ‘dream journal’, my work is bound together to form a book; a mixture of fictional work along with aspects that feel they may pull from a real memory after all. This project specifically just works with dreams I've written down; the start of a chronological timeline from when I started college. This work is only the beginning, for so many dreams are harbored within my mind and are waiting for their reveal on a page.
