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Project 06

Dream Together

Year
2023
Medium
Installation of eighteen archival pigment prints on aluminum composite panels, dimensions variable; 12.282 × approximately 0.96 m overall
Installation rendering with eighteen photographs arranged at varying heights as a continuous frieze across a gallery wall.

Dream Together edits independently made photographs of public life into a sequence shaped by absurdity, play, and the feeling that its separate encounters might belong to the same dream.

Wide park scene with people on grass, picnic table, trees, and strong red-blue 3D color offset.
Boys swim near a beach while large docked ships and a small white boat sit across the water.
Low-angle basketball court scene with a dog in foreground, palm trees, and a player jumping by the hoop.
Stuffed gorilla keychain hangs between a bright patterned wall and an arcade-like machine, with 3D color fringing.
Crowded sidewalk under scaffolding; a child sits on a man's shoulders beside a 'MISSING PERSON' poster.
Beach workout area with a man on a phone in foreground and another man pulling a green resistance band behind him.
A couple kisses on a dark city sidewalk beside a lit building wall and glass door at night.
Child in a cap holds an adult's hand at an outdoor market, with tents and blurred shoppers behind.
Man poses in front of a large blue figure wearing oversized white glasses with red lenses at night.
Indoor attraction signage shows 'ATM,' slot-machine graphics, VR riders, and a large orange arrow.
Tilted night scene of a person playing saxophone in a dark arcade walkway with red wall and neon color fringing.
Man in a floral shirt raises crossed hands in front of his face on a pier at sunset.
Beachside dusk scene with a woman dancing, two standing people, palm silhouettes, and a shirtless man walking by.
Shirtless man laughs or shouts beneath a bright overhead light against a dark textured wall.
Close-up of a man in a floral shirt turning beside glowing street lamps on a pier at dusk.
Dark long-exposure scene of a person holding a sparking light source that casts blue light across their face.
Blurred dark silhouette of a figure against a blue dusk sky, with faint lines and a small orange light trail.
Silhouetted birds fly across a blue evening sky above dark building rooftops and a blurred head in foreground.

Dream Together emerged through the editing of photographs made independently across public spaces in North American cities. Looking back at these images, I recognized a recurring attraction to the absurd, playful, and instinctive ways people inhabit and move through shared space. Swimming, leaping, watching, touching, kissing, and performing appear as fragments of everyday life, connected less by event or location than by the feeling that they might belong to the same dream.

I developed RGB displacement specifically for this project, using it alongside flash and motion blur to move the sequence between direct observation and altered perception. The opening crowd fractures into overlapping fields of color; the images then return to daylight before passing through artificial signs, performance, darkness, and increasingly unstable bodies. Figures gradually become repetitions, silhouettes, and traces of blue light, until human movement gives way to birds crossing the sky.

Through selection, sequencing, and visual transformation, Dream Together reorganizes unstaged encounters according to an associative dream logic. The photographs remain rooted in public life while the sequence allows reality to become strange, fluid, and briefly shared.

A curated selection from this project had exhibited at CONTACT Photography Festival.