KYLE YIP

Retro-LEGO® Dreams

Kyle Yip

Toronto, Canada

“The following body of work are exact replicas of visual art conceived and produced during the rapid-eye movement state of my dreams. While the purpose of dreams are not completely understood, psychoanalysts believe they are the manifestations of our deepest desires and fears. They are the direct expression of imagination and utilize the most efficient language of symbolism and mythological archetypes.

For centuries, religions have devoted their entire practice to the study of consciousness. Three of the four branches of Buddhism, Zen and Advaita Vedānta sect of Hinduism for example maintain that a separate self independent from the vast cosmos is essentially an illusory notion. The Mandukya Upanishad section of the Vedānta scriptures in particular describe a dream as one of three states the soul experiences during its lifetime, the other two being the waking and sleep state.

In Gestalt therapy, German-Jewish psychiatrist Fritz Perls describes dreams as projections of the parts of ourselves that have been neglected, rejected, or suppressed.

Carl Jung added that every person in the dream may represent an aspect of the dreamer, which he called the existential approach to dreams. Perls went to far as to say that even inanimate objects in the dream may represent aspects of the dreamer. Through association, the dreamer would be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and describe its characteristics, bringing into awareness the more disaffected aspects of the dreamer's personality.”

Text by the artist

Kyle Yip Yin/Yang, 2018 Acrylic, aluminum, found images and two-component epoxy on wood panel 91.44 x 91.44 cm

Kyle Yip Housewife, 2017 Acrylic, aluminum, found images and two-component epoxy on wood panel 91.44 x 91.44 cm See availability @ricegallery.art

Kyle Yip Police Foundations, 2019 Acrylic, aluminum, found images and two-component epoxy on wood panel 91.44 x 91.44 cm