Dreams as Sources of Artistic Production

Art is an expression of the mind, either consciously or unconsciously, in relief, or in two or three dimension through different media. The manifest or conscious experience is visible and could be fully expressed while the latent or unconscious which is invisible, is beyond human understanding unless it is interpreted. Sleeping dream experiences relate to issues of deeper levels of understanding which could be recast, and if systematically analyzed paves the way to solving many psychological problems. This paper is about some hidden meanings of symbols in dreams and looks at how to use sleeping dream experiences in producing art in relief sculpture. Data was collected using the qualitative and descriptive methods through mainly interviews. The qualitative experimental method was used to portray the experiences from the researcher’s dreams while the descriptive method was employed to describe the researcher’s personal encounters of dreams. Interviews with knowledgeable individuals who can interpret dreams were carried out to support the researcher’s own understanding of dreams. This has helped the author to interpret the dream scenes employed in the paper. Dream experiences were presented in words and transformed into two-dimensional sketches, representing the important activities of the dream. The central ideas within them, which were the finished sketches, were developed and used to portray the dream experiences. Papié mâché, which is marched paper mixed with cement as a binding agent in a paste form was used to produce the work with a touch of multi-coloured finish. Each dream experience employed in the production, from the narration to the finished works, has a unique meaning and understanding which allowed the free flow of the mind to capture scenes from the dreams and their presentation artistically. Works presented in this way, created memorable pictures in the mind of both the dreamer and the observer.   Keywords: Conscious, "De l’étèrnité à l’étèrnité” (from eternity to eternity), dream, papié mâché, surreal, sub-conscious

A Trapped Life: Herzog’s Circle in Stroszek

Herzog’s film Stroszek is about how Bruno pursues his dream of freedom but inevitably fails and ends in dying within the trapped circle. Bruno’s journey to freedom can be categorized into three parts, and the invisible life circle impedes his every step during the journey, thus leading to his final despair. This paper aims to analyze and expose the true while cruel life circle reflected intensively in this film

HOW TO PROVIDE QUALITY TEACHING ENVIRONMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: BANGLADESH CASE

Achieving inclusive and quality education for all, we strongly belief that education is one of the most powerful and proven vehicles for sustainable development. Conscious dreams are the result of weird mathematical manipulation of our daily life. We see a dream that, one day the education system of Bangladesh will be on the right track. On 16th December 1971 Bangladesh after getting independent from suppression, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the Nation had a dream to build a successful nation, namely Shonar Bangla. For doing the same, it was necessary to build an educated nation not only by producing Dr., Engineers, and Teachers but also by producing effective practical knowledgeable human resources. To formulate an effective education policy, different government formed different commission but, due to some invisible reason, no commission got materialized. In this current conceptual paper, we will be focusing on Bangladeshi educational institute and, education policies, to find out the obstacles behind providing quality teaching and effective learning.  Article visualizations

Escape

The site for this thesis is the peripheral zone of Dublin, Ireland. The project is driven by a hidden energy and the always present dream of escaping. It became an attempt to understand a city that presently remains invisible

Children of Chaos: Three Movements for Orchestra

Title from PDF of title page, viewed May 30, 2017Thesis advisor: Zhou LongVitaThesis (M.M.)--Conservatory of Music and Dance. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017Two characters from The Chronicles of Chaos trilogy by John C. Wright inspire these three movements for orchestra, “Amelia,” “Colin,” and “Exit.” The characters in the story are not human and have different powers allowing them to manipulate their reality. The first movement, “Amelia,” is based on clever and adventurous Amelia Armstrong Windrose, a Phaethusian or radiant being, who can travel inter-dimensionally giving her the ability to travel quickly, lift heavy objects, and become invisible. This implies an enigmatic depth to her reality and her musical character sketch will use different orchestrations and texture shifts to illustrate this sense. Her movement explores different forms of musical depth including range, density, and timbral shifts based on a flowing melody used throughout the three movements. The next movement, “Colin” is based on boisterous and loyal Colin Ibilus mac Firbolg, Prince Phobetor the son of King Morpheus of the dream realm. Colin is the Prince of Nightmares and can manipulate reality with disbelief. In his movement, there is a war between high and low, bright and dark, consonant and dissonant, dream and reality. The structure of the piece begins with a glissandi motiv that lilts the music into a dream of sudden contrasts. The music rolls through rock motives, modal melodies, and remembrances of Amelia’s melody. Progressing through the dream the music starts to awaken in the last movement, “Exit,” with a return of the glissandi motiv. In this movement remembered textures and new ideas are brought together, cumulating in the last wave of Amelia’s thematic material and marching with fanfares to the end.Abstract -- Instrumentation -- Percussion notes -- Performance notes -- Score -- Vit

Displaying desire and distinction in housing

The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction expressed in talk about home decoration as personal expression and individuals' ideas of a `dream house'. It is based on an empirical investigation of taste and lifestyle using nationally representative survey data and qualitative interviews. The article shows both that personal resources and the imagination of home are linked to levels of cultural capital, and that rich methods of investigation are required to grasp the significance of these normally invisible assets to broaden the academic understanding of the field of housing in contemporary culture

An autoethnographic study: An identity lost and a passage discovered

The professional careers of teachers with a chronic illness can sometimes be devastating. This study addresses the insufficient understanding of the identity crisis a teacher goes through when one is suddenly diagnosed with a chronic illness. While researching different types of theories, identity theory best fit this topic and my interest. Within identity theory, there are four perspectives to view identity. The four perspectives are Nature, Institution, Discourse, and Affinity identities. In order to understand identity, one must understand how identity is formed. Chronic illness identity is a change from all other identities that have been constructed. This study uses a qualitative analysis method to explore chronic illness and its effect on identity and disclosure in the teaching profession. Autoethnography was used as a research tool to explore personal experiences. Studying a disability can change society’s perspective on how invisible disabilities are viewed. The following study is the chronicled written account of a teacher with multiple chronic illnesses. Trauma impacts the way one perceives themselves. Chronic illnesses are just the type of trauma that can be a dream assassin or a dream deliver. Writing uncovered a multidimensional intersecting identity. It was not just about the lost identity, it is about changing my fixed mindset and revealing the identity that was thought to be lost. Hopefully someone will find solace in finding their passage to reconstructing their identity

Dual-Readout Calorimetry

In the past 20 years, dual-readout calorimetry has emerged as a technique for measuring the properties of high-energy hadrons and hadron jets that offers considerable advantages compared with the instruments that are currently used for this purpose in experiments at the high-energy frontier. In this paper, we review the status of this experimental technique and the challenges faced for its further development.Comment: 44 pages, 53 figures, accepted for publication in Review of Modern Physic

Writing a city : a self-reflexive exploration between the lines

My thesis investigates the dialogue between the act of writing and the process of making: the spatiality of the literary dimension versus the architectural dimension, through creating an invisible city. It is a self-reflexive process in which the storyline and the structure of writing affects how the casts are designed, while in reverse the process of making directs the trajectory of the story. It is a narrative project that lives in both media, and deals with the difficulties that come out of the different directions. Consciously working with intuition, and exploring roots in every decision made, as if diagnosing my own dream, comes challenging, but it leads to an organic understanding of how I work, as an observer, a writer, and a designer