Exhibition

          Lucid Dream          

BEK FARRY     

Lucid Dream: artist statement.

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes you wake up in someone else’s dream. Rachelle Mead.

There is another place where we go when we dream. It is a place of monsters and angels. Where we can be Kings or Queens on thrones or beggars on the street. We can breath under water and fly effortlessly through the air. We can walk unharmed through fire, deep dark forests and tumble down houses. We can pull our own teeth out over and over and over again. We can change gender or sexual orientation, and back again. We can visit strange countries we somehow recognise or find confusion in our own backyards. We meet strangers and close companions. We can struggle against tidal waves and fall, seemingly without end. We can age or we can return to our childhood. We can be caught naked. In public. Sometimes we wake in our dreams, only to discover we are still dreaming, and must wake up again. Sometimes we know we’re dreaming, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes, our brains will trip into dreaming while we are awake. But what if you woke up in someone else’s dream?

My images are dreams, sometimes pleasant, sometimes uncomfortable, quite often terribly confused. With Lucid Dream, I invite you to wake inside my dreams. Be trapped inside my head as I sleep; walk along my nocturnal moonlit forest paths and rocky shores, scramble over my ruined  buildings and tip toe along my midnight halls. Peer within my tumblings and see your own dreamscapes. Unwind your ball of gaudy red string as you walk into your own dream mists. Hold your own hand for comfort and find out what awaits us both in the great collective subconscious realms of Nod.

Bek Farry has a Bachelor Of Contemporary Art with Honours, and a Master Of Social Work. She has been using photoshop to manipulate images for over twenty years. She lives in Launceston and shoots the majority of the image components onsite in camera.