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Omen

Fridays Dream on Saterday told, is sure to come true befor nine days old

Exhibition at the Dovecot Arts Center in 1993. I took photographs stories from my Dream diary, such as the sick monster, the bird in a web and the dream scientist. Althought I only officialy sold one picture Stockton houligans stole two of my photos which has to be an odd sort of complement. The insuranced payed for the loss but it put pressure on for the official opening day as I had to get two pictures printed and one painted over. I had planed to do some painting andn got as far as drawing then out but did not have time to get my painting skills up to speed for an exhibition.

Ste Howe was playing as I was printing colour negatives in the Dovecot Darkrooms (not set up for colour) I could hear the practicing fine but when the audience where settled the music we too muffled by their bodies.

After the success of my recent exhibition of dream orientated images at the Dovecot Arts Centre, entitled "Friday's Dream" ** synthesise techniques opened up by computers with traditional photography and film to produce a compelling and relevant body of work Most of the exhabition is based on film scripts that never got made and ideas that at the time, where never organised enough. Situation - An unemployed youth in Redcar is trying to work out what his dreams mean and becomes obssesed by it. Dreams are so interesting because they elude us and because of the vast quantitys of nonsence has been wrote about them i.e. "Fridays dream on saterday told, will always come true, be it never so old ?."I hope to add further nonsence gleaned by this fictisous character in Redcar. This will consist of impressions and visual memorys, some writing and a few sculptures. what has emerged from (my x) his resurch is that a dream is bigger than the sum of its parts, that they can express a greater part of a persons self than they are aware of. Hopefully some of my images will triger off memorys of dreams in some viewers.Dreams often speak in strong language depicting extreem horror or centiment. In the words of Gustave Jung "A suitable warning to the dream-interpreter if only it were not so paradoxical would be 'do anything you like; only don't try and understand"(I'll go along with that).If my exhabition makes you loose sleep just remember; "Turkey sandwiches help sleep onset". My first attemps at understanding my dreams involved try to create a fixed visual representation of what I found in my dreams so as to have the answers befor me. Somehow by arresting my disturbing thoughts I thought I could analise them and work out how to cure my miserable sole**** I had always been fustrated by never being able to remember the exact moment at which I fell asleep, from an early age I have been on occasions troubled by not being able to fall asleep I have tryed taking slow deep breaths to try and induce the beta rithum of sleep and helping the onsaught of dreams by trying to think in an unstructured way invariably a song or a worrie would invade my consiousness and I would be unable to shift it I was to stubben in my pried to adopt counting sheep and so on or was unable to see that by doing something so macanical that I would allow myself enter a state such as sleep (not realising that this is the central tequnice in meditation) as I became more obsesed with remembering this event I fell asleep later and later sometimes after a few days through shere exhortion having achieved nothing.*******I set my clock at two hour intervals to capture the progression of my dreams throughout the night***** On dreams Half our day we pass in the shadow of the earth and the brother of death exacteth a third part of aur lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical objects, wherein we are confessedly deceived. The day supplieth us with truths; th enight with fictions and faleshood which uncomfortably divide the natural account of our being. And, therefore, having passed the day in somber labouiurs and rational enquiries of truth, we arre fain to detake ourselfs unto such a state of being, wherein the soberest haeds have acted all the monstrosities of melancholy, and which unto open eyes are no better thatfolly and madness...... .....Some dreams I confess may admit of easie and feminine Exposition; he who dreamed that he could not see his right Shoulder, might easly fear to lose the sight of his right eye; he that before a journey dreamed that his feet were cut off, had a plain warning nn9ot to undertake hies ijntended journey. But why to dream of Lettuce should presage some ensuing Disease why to eat Figs should signify foolish Talk, why to eat Eggs great Truoble, and to dream of Blindness should be highly commended, according to the Oneirocritical Verses of Astrampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination....... ....Men act with some conformity unto their awaked senses; and consolations or discouragements may be drawn from dreams which intimately tell us ourselves. Luther was not like to fear a spirit in the night, when such an apparition wuold not terrify him in the day..... Death alone, not sleep, is able to put an end unto sin; and there may be a night-book of our iniquities; for bedside the transgression of the day, casuists will tell us of mortal sins in dreams, arising from evil precognitions; meanwhile human law regards not noctambulos; and if a night-walker should break his neck, or kill a man, takes no notice of it.... If some have swooned, they may also have died in dreams, since death is but a confirmed swooning. Whether Plato died in a dream, as some deliver, he must rise again to inform us. That some have never dreamed, is as improbable as that some have never laughed. that children dream not the first half-year; that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams; dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis tim e to close the five ports of knowledge; We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasmes of sleep, which oftern continueth praecogitation; making Cables of cobweddes, and Wildernesses of handsome Groves. Besides Hippocrates hath spoken so little and the Oneirocritical Masters have left such frigid interpritations from plants, that there is little encouragement to dream of paradice itself. Nor will th esweetest delight of Garden afford much detectable odours; and thought in the Bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose. Night, which pagan Theology could make the daughter of Chaos, affords no advantage to the description of order; Although no lower than that masse can we derive its Genealogy. All things being in order, so shall thaty end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order, and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven. Though Somnus in Homer Be sent to rowse up Agamenon,I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drosie at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again? SIR THOMAS BROWNE Most of the exhabition is based on film scripts that never got made and ideas that at the time, where never organised enough. Situation - An unemployed youth in Redcar is trying to work out what his dreams mean and becomes obssesed by it. This is interupted when he falls in love with a young girl with a conciderable number of problems. The story is about two young peoples insanity. Dreams are so interesting because they elude us and because of the vast quantitys of nonsence has been wrote about them i.e. "Fridays dream on saterday told, will always come true, be it never so old ?."I hope to add further nonsence gleaned by this fictisous character in Redcar. This will consist of impressions and visual memorys, some writing and a few sculptures. what has emerged from (my x) his resurch is that a dream is bigger than the sum of its parts, that they can express a greater part of a persons self than they are aware of. Hopefully some of my images will triger off memorys of dreams in some viewers.Dreams often speak in strong language depicting extreem horror or centiment. In the words of Gustave Jung "A suitable warning to the dream-interpreter if only it were not so paradoxical would be 'do anything you like; only don't try and understand"(I'll go along with that).If my exhabition makes you loose sleep just remember; "Turkey sandwiches help sleep onset". I hope my exhabition reflects personal experiences that are particular to me. Most of the exhabition is based on film scripts that never got made and ideas that at the time where never organised enough. Situation - An unemployed youth in Redcar is trying to work out what his dreams mean and becomes obssesed by it. This is interupted when he has sex for the first time and falls in love with a young girl with a conciderable number of problems. The story is about two young peoples insanity. Dreams are so interesting because they elude us and because of this vast quantitys of nonsence has been wrote about them i.e. "Fridays dream on saterday told, will always come true, be it never so old ?."I hope to add further nonsence gleaned from when I was obsessed by the subject. This will consist of impressions and visual memorys, some writing and a few sculptures. what has emerged from my resurch is that a dream is bigger than the sum of its parts, that they can express a greater part of a persons self than they are aware of. Hopefully some of my images will triger off memorys of dreams in some viewers.Dreams often speak in strong language depicting extreem horror or centiment. In the words of Gustave Jung "A suitable warning to the dream-interpreter if only it were not so paradoxical would be 'do anything you like; only don't try and understand"(I'll go along with that).If my exhabition makes you loose sleep just remember; "Turkey sandwiches help sleep onset". I hope my exhabition reflects personal experiences that are perculier to me. Most of the exhabition is baced on film scripts that never got made and ideas that at the time where never organised enough. The story comprises of two elements firstly my attemps at reasurching the meaning of my dreams , secondly how my first relationship through me out of one obsetion into another equally destructive obsetion.