Dream Walker
I made this work last year, but I didn’t have time to post. so… haha
The background of this artwork is about one of my dream. I dreamed this dream last spring break, and it was continuous 3 days when I was still living in the school dorm. I had a lot of nightmare before that dream every night, and I got a bad cold in the break. I forgot which day it was. At the beginning of this dream, I knew that I was dreaming, but I couldn’t wake myself up, so I gave up to struggle, and tried to read what this dream was trying to tell me. I observed around and I found out that I was in a very dark forest, but I knew that I was not alone, because I could see the eyes of many beasts staring at me in the dark forest, so I dare not feel free to move because at least the place I am standing is bright and those beasts are afraid to approach here. In a blink of an eye, the light disappeared, and when I started to sprint, and my savior appeared. In the dream, the man is wearing a black misty clothes. The creature is a black mist that is exuding and squirming. The man didn't say anything and looked at me, and the black mist constantly guides me to follow them in a language I could understand. Impressively, as long as I followed them, I could easily walked in this dream. Along the way, there were some screens above the dark forest's sky. As we go further and more, those screens were getting more and more dense and some even overlap. The black fog kept telling me the story of each screen, the feelings of people in that videos. Unfortunately, every video wasn't happy story. Some stories were about mistreatment, and some were chased like a plot in a horror movie. Those video were painful, cruel, unfortunate, and whether they are physical or psychological. For three consecutive nights of this dream, I followed them all the way through the dark forest, and listening to the dark fog to tell the story in the video for me. Although I have a lot of questions, but I couldn't say anything in this dream. Optimistically, at least I could choose to follow them. I didn't know why I felt that I could atoning in this terrible environment. The last day, we reached the junction of a dark forest and an all-white space. Finally the man told me the first sentence in three days: "DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKE AGAIN!." Then I woke up, and after that I didn't have nightmare anymore. (At least for more than half a year. Haha) But I was still sick after the break. haha
The reason of the molding is different between my dream and my work. I was studying anatomy at that time, then I used this opportunity to practice what I have learned from this class! As for the black fog, it might only be used in 3D.