Dormiveglia

''The space that stretches between sleeping and waking''

Dormiveglia, a dark surreal and artistic exploration of the space that stretches between sleeping and waking, opening up both the subconscious and conscious mind and letting it roam free, building a place and image for others to roam and escape, with images that force the viewer to concoct their own opinion and interpretation of each shot and wander through conception, evoking empathy from the viewer. Conjuring beauty, dark fantasy, and darker surreal fashion imagery, are the main aspects within the books content, along with added effects of image distortion and camera effects, adding a more eerie feel to the imagery. There are four different chapters in the book slowly showing the progressing stages of dream and the unconscious mind, I want the viewer to open up and question, look and feel every part of the dark in between world of dream and reality making you wonder if you are awake or asleep, depicting how real this could actually be, allowing your mind to explore, escape, and question the surroundings and goings on within the imagery and own mind. The book comes inside a box, the box acts as the first step of exploration and imagination, and looks like a book itself with the title etched on the front. From the outside, the viewer will have to figure out how to access the book inside and that is where the journey begins. Dream is considered to be the peak of the unconscious mind that creates an opening of possibilities and excitement, creating imagery and art works, where the world is slightly out of touch, feeling unreal, and dreamlike, stimulating and fascinating, making it a challenging prospect that has allowed me to blur reality and dig deep into the unconscious state of mind.

The unconscious constantly communicates with the conscious mind via our subconscious, and is what provides us with the meaning to all our interactions with the world, as filtered through your beliefs and habits. It communicates through feelings, emotions, imagination, sensations, and dreams.

When you are laying in bed late at night and hear something go “bump” in the night. If you let your thoughts and imagination wander to all the horrible things that might happen, then your subconscious will throw up the feelings, emotions, and memories of past events that you’ve associated with those thoughts. 

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/conscious-subconscious-unconscious-mind-work.html

Final Book

My final book is here! 

So I have got my final book back at last which was a lot later than planned originally in the production schedule but its here so its fine. The layout of the book is exactly how I made it which is great, there are few issues that I have with it but there is defiantly not enough time to get them sorted and I don't know if it is just me being picky. The translucent pages and text have all been printed in the right places which is great especially after the nightmare I have had sorting it out. The images have come out good some better than others some of them are slightly to dark but that is down to the issue of having to have it printed in cmyk format. Overall I happy with the result of my book of course there are elements I would change with more time and money such as the back and front cover design but for what I have planned and achieved it has come out perfect.

Chapter names and meanings

'OBSCURITY' - The state of being unknown, inconspicuous 

'HYPNAGOGIC' - The darkness immediately before falling asleep

'ORPHIC' - Mysterious and entrancing beyond ordinary understanding

'ARCANE' - Understood by few, mysterious, entrancing 

'SUBCONSCIOUS AWAKENING' - Unnatural awakening from a dream like state and the subconscious self