In the boys sleep, he came to a strange greenhouse full of green plants. Inside he met 7 girls, namely Masha, Polina, Yliana, Varya, Alisa, Aliona and Nastya. The girls They were conducting unknown and mysterious experiments, while the boy was exploring the quiet space in front of him and these strange girls.
Then, through the touch and pulse of the soul, the boy fell in love with one of the girls. However, in an instant, the scene in front of them all turned to darkness, and feathers suddenly popped out of the girls' skin. Their fragile feet made them fall to the ground one by one, losing the ability to stand. In an instant, the girls disappeared, and white geese appeared one after another with waving wings, leaving only the stunned boy and the clothes that still retained the girls body temperature...
I remember watching a promotional video launched by a fashion brand a long time ago. A few days ago, it actually passed through many years, and appeared in my dream without any warning! I don’t know why it appeared, and I don’t know why it appeared. This scene fragment just appeared in my dream. staged.
What is the relationship between dreams and dreams for you? Is it a sudden strange visitor? Or is it a familiar figure that seems familiar?
As far as I am concerned, dreams are a very special existence. Sometimes, it will grab you and fly to the sky or even go into space to capture those wild illusions; sometimes, it will bring your closest people and things into your dreams, and perform them inside so that you can't distinguish reality. False plot. It is the most brutal beast and the most beautiful breeze. Through sleep with your eyes closed, it touches the pores of your skin and even the flesh and blood of your heart with a stinging but not painful, gentle but not delicate touch.
Kustaa Saksi, an artist who was born in Finland and now lives in Amsterdam, truly presents the dreams of himself and others through the weaving of fabrics, which are both intangible and invisible. This artist from the North with a sleep-deprived constitution is famous for his distinctive and delicate creative style. He has collaborated with well-known brands such as LVMH, Issey Miyake, Nike, Lacoste, and Sony.
The latest work of this artist who often deals with sleep and dreams, "Hypnopompic", uses fabrics such as rayon, metal thread, alpaca hair, and mohair as materials, and uses French chakati loom techniques to embroider it. The graphic illustrations he is good at combine the fangs and claws and every light jump in the dream into stunning large-scale hangings.blanket.
"When science meets fantasy", this is how the artist describes his work. Childhood ski vacations, snow-white forests, frozen seaside and forests, islands covered with snow and ice, and the Northern Lights, etc. These strange shapes and mysterious places that occupy the mind are all sources of inspiration for this artist. .
When these tapestries endowed with strange souls come into view, it seems that the mutual pull between waking, sleeping and dreaming is a kind of real and surreal pull. Spiders, monkeys and other insect animals are watching you waiting for an opportunity, ready to grab you into the psychedelic world they weave.
Special thanks to Shao Shao siu siu, grass prefix
Photography by Tara Kan