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Dreams
Crossroads, from Pieces of Dreams
Below is the basic design for the first twelve parts of a 60 part contiguous work,
that begins an exploration called Pieces of Dreams, as these are interwoven into our
daily lives. This work has many layers and is of multiple dimensions. Symbols play a part,
but no literal interpretation can begin to tell it all. What matters here is what you find,
not what I came to say.
Originally the images were 19.75" x 26.50". Click on the images for
greater detail.
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I invested 18 months in this sketch, and it's an unfinished work that was designed
simply to introduce the cast of characters for the entire 60 parts of this project.
The second set of 12 was to have been Odyssey, and would've used the cast of characters
(puzzle-people, shadow-people, games-people and survivors) to explore the interior of the mind.
This was to have been a journey through condition and circumstance in both conscious and
unconscious thought. The final 36 images - Quest - would have explored the various houses
of personality: as we are, as we seek to be, and as others see us.
This began as a puzzle project for American Publishing, who later became Bits & Pieces.
Because of the scale and ware-housing difficulties the project was scrapped, shortly after
I started. The puzzles were to have been marketed in small groupings - from pairs to groups
of three - to encourage the collection of the entire image of the completed work.
Artistically this was a bit of a cop-out as the work needed to be "completely filled with
complexity" (when artistry often dictates much less cacophony). But this was my idea, and the
company did not dictate any prerequisites about the composition for this work. In the
end I lost my way - because of the basic contradiction at the core of what I came to say.
Now, almost 20 years later, I'm thinking that perhaps an artistic version of these concepts
might be well received - not as jigsaw puzzles but as a work of integrity, interconnection
and potential - because of the conflicted state of the world today.
Enjoy!
Kirwan,
San Francisco, 2003
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