This sculpture is based off of dreams I’ve been having about coffee filters. I looked it up, and it’s supposed to mean that, “to see a coffee maker (filter) in your dream represents a disturbance in your psyche and well-being,” and I should consider the phrase, “wake up and smell the coffee”. In order to purge this recurrence, I decided to create a coffee filter with etches of my REM EEG cycle onto it, surrounded by a large almost-complete circle of a finger-like object, and two hands holding one of my EEG waves. At first, I wanted to create one large coffee filter inspired by Richard Serra’s works at the Bilbao Guggenheim. However, I continuously had reframe my idea for this sculpture to comply with (non)accessible materials, the assignment at hand, and my skill level. As time went on, my influences and ideas changed. I wanted the sculpture to be more playful than stark and to come from what elements I found interesting about my dreams. I like how my dreams can be one thing while I’m asleep and something completely different when I’m awake. The dream is one thing, and the memory of that dream is another. I can only fully experience the reality of the dream while dreaming it, otherwise, I am remembering the dream as I want to, making it much more colorful, interesting, and meaningful than it was. I guess that means this sculpture is an artifact of an unskilled body recreating a lucid brain’s recreation of a dream. Weird.
