Dream Translations
with Anne Willieme
Dream Translations Museums
What do you dream about? Far away landscapes? Flying? An emerald-colored ocean? Or do you encounter recognizable situations but they all seem to have a twist? Your car is gold, your cat can talk and your local subway is now a boat.
Our dreams provide us with precious knowledge about our lives. They also create poetic spaces due to their out-of-the-ordinary presentation and their imaginative renderings of our quotidian
Dream Translations is a collaborative process during which I translate your day or nightly dreams into a selection of artworks from the world’s great museums.
Dream Translations Museums is a 1 1/2-hour interactive group session during which the dream is illuminated by the art while the art is rediscovered through the dream.
Sessions take place in-person at a local museum or online.
Why Dreams?
“Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall find the truth”
Investigating our dreams provides us with a special lens into our lives. Exploring our nightly reels, we may uncover a long forgotten longing for a country where we used to live or a nascent desire to embark on a new career path.
However, dreams also reward us with rich avenues to pursue our creativity. A number of scientists, writers, and artists queried their dreams to find the answers to their creative conundrums. Such was the case of Auguste Kekule, who figured out the structure of the Benzene ring when he “saw” it in one of his dreams or the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge looked to his dream to find inspiration for Kubla Khan, one of his most famous poems.
And beyond ready-made creative solutions, our dreams are creative in and of themselves as they offer unusual juxtapositions and inherent reframes of our routines, that can trigger new ways of seeing, encouraging a creative mindset.
Our dreams may also take us to new and exotic landscapes, up a thickly arbored path or along a snowy canyon, for instance. In this way, we gain a refresh without leaving our homes.
We can track dreams with a wide lens and consider the many appearances they may take: the nightly dream of course, but also the day dream and the dream encapsulated in our cherished missions and goals.
Giving the dream a bodily form via art anchors it more firmly into our consciousness. Artworks are akin to dreams in the way they too probe our inner worlds. Dreams and art speak the same language, a visual one of imaginings and meanings. In pairing them, we find their meanings further revealed.
As a dream translator, I translate all forms of dreaming, from the night dream to the day dream as well as the dreams encapsulated in the visions we hold of our most cherished missions and goals.
—-Anne Willieme
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Day Dreams
Your perceive your day dream anew when you uncover it translated into an artwork.
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Nightly Dreams
Your nightly dream gains in eloquence when it is translated into one of the art pieces of the world’s great collections.
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Mission/Goal Dreams
You connect with the dream power of your mission and its goals when you experience them interpreted into works of art.