I’ve always been fascinated with dreams and curious about the worlds we travel to that we’ve never seen before, the faces of people we’ve never met, and the scenarios we find ourselves in. For my senior project at undergrad in 2014, I developed a subscription company with a mission to help customer build their memory and practice remembering their dreams. The subscription began with a dream journal which I designed, wrote, and binded that centered around education about the REM cycle, insights into how journaling first thing in the morning would encourage memory retention over time, and custom journal pages. I then curated a collection of items that would be included with the subscription model with tips on how to use the items in a way that would encourage memory retention.
What I enjoyed most about this project are the resulting collages shown below which as I created them allowed me to daydream about the dream plot, what it might mean, and exploration. I created these collages by sourcing a wide collection of magazine and print materials, exacto knife cut them, and scanning them into the computer. Then, in Photoshop I collaged and edited them together in fun and interesting ways as a portion of the dream journal.