Jingxi Wang

Jingxi, graphic designer, creator, and lover of hand painting. By perceiving the world, she is sensitive to different sounds, colors and people, and is able to find beauty everywhere. She hopes to describe and record our surroundings from an alternative perspective.

As a visual communicator, Jingxi believes that design can build a bridge between scientific fields and the wider public – creating greater understanding and appreciation of scientific thinking, whilst embracing imaginative forms of visual speculation.

Let's talk about dreams

Dreams are images and stories that come into our mind during sleep. Emerging from the activity of our brain – more specifically during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – people have long been fascinated by the creation of dreams. A myriad of psychological studies and neuroscience investigations have tried to explain what dreams are, how they happen and most importantly how they affect us.

Dreaming is an experience we all have. Through my research and visual work I am establishing new visual ways of analysing, representing and communicating dreams – helping them to be read, explored and understood.

Dreams

Dream with John Cage

As the background sound, John Cage's Sound Piece-Rozart Mix (1965) demonstrates the shift between fantastic dream and reality, while the movie adopts the "hand" as the device shift between two stages.

Dreams / Water

Dreams are not only just about personal experience and reality.

My friend's and my actual lives are far away from those water-related situations, but our interactions allow our dreams to co-create another world—water is the “singularity” of that world.

The Dream World

“For I am abstracted from the world，the world from nature，nature from the way, and the way from what is beneath abstraction.”

“Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.”

The study of the dream world can also refer to studies in other fields. I combined with previous videos, theories in multidimensions and the models in my imagination to represent the dreamland mix with various memories, capture the blank between dream and awake before it leaves out; flow back and forward into realities shift into different time and connected in other demotion or world.

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dream I — "It’s a heavy sphere, dream is locked inside, it is pressed in the deep most, which cannot be reopened anyway, it is feeling the heavy head while trying hard to recall it."

dream II — "There is no feeling, I don’t think about if I do not remember. " "All the time people, one people."

dream III — "If there is a shape, possible it will be the irregular shape. After all these dreams are not existing."

dream IV — "What is the shape of the wind？Which is the shape of the forgotten dream, A gust of wind blow away. Or the fireworks? Disappeared in a flash, then the beautiful fireworks will stay in your eyes, you cannot express it, nor draw it. Just like a forgotten dream."

dream V — “My dream is either not clear, or can be remembered incompletely.""It's self-representation, which is similar with standby desktop of windows."

According to the interviewees' impressions of their dreams and imagination of forgotten dreams, the director introduces the technique, such as symbol graphics and illustration, to explore people's understanding of dreams and the symbolic meaning of dreams.

I set up five questions：

1. What does the dream mean to you do you think? What is the significance of it?

2. When you wake up, what is the peculiar feeling that makes you realise you had a dream last night but you cannot remember the content?

3. Have you ever experienced the time when you still remember the content of the dream when you just wake up, but forget it all when you are completely awake with clear minds? How do you describe this feeling?

4. What is the content of the dream that was forgotten by you do you think?

5. What is the shape of the “forgotten dream” do you think?

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Folded papers

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148 × 210 mm

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