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AMANDA ROTH / APRIL BRADFORD / CAITLAN DOCHERTY / ELSPETH WILSON / NICOLA DELLARD-LYLE / SUSANNE LANSMAN / ANDRA SMALENIC / BAUTI BOTTO / LAETITIA LESIEURE DESBRIÈRE BATISTA / ANDRA SMILEANSCHI / HANNA ROSE BERGMANN / HERLINDE DEMAEREL / FEDERICA COLLETTI / GEORGETTE SMITH / LUIS PATINO / LYDIA EVANS / FRENCH KATE / MOLLY HAYWARD / NORA GAZZAR / PATRYCJA FREY / PIA NICOTRA / THERESA KÜNIG / THI DOAN / VICTORIA SENDRA / KAT SHORE / SERGEY GUSEV / JUAN DEL’O / DESITUR / LAURA ROKLICER
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did the dream teach you anything? ............................................ ...................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................................... how would you describe the feeling when you woke up? how do you feel the day after the dream? .............................. ..................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ...............
how could the dream continue as a story? .. ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... .........................................................................................
Dreams and creativity are connected. Throughout history, artists have tapped into the strange visions of dreams to inspire and create art.
“Dreaming” by Thi Doan
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BAUTI BOTTO
Director of Photography Bautista Botto Barilli @boluuuuudo Styling Molly Wearn @mollywearn & Eden Barrell-Kane @ edenedeneeden Production & Direction assistant Cecilia Keith @ cherryykeith & Alisha @_lishaw_ Model Bambi Dyboski @bumbleino
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Tally Marks LAURA ROKLICER
The white marbles – the creators of this boundless beach, which overlooked the world of isolation, wonder, and timeless thought, ever so gently touched his barefoot existence. Samuel had no age in his mind, no companion outside it, and no end to contemplate; all he had was the Sun that would restlessly rise each time to mark another breath he took in, and the stars that took his breath away, every time just before he’d shut the spark in his eyes to wander off into another world, a world so merciful on his repetitive being, a world so playful with his sanity. Yet, somehow, so mysteriously uniform, for the eyes that have never seen a colour cannot dream it either. But Samuel knew no other, so he thanked the Moon for bringing him out of the Sun, consistent in his prayers to continue this existence, knowing not what lies beyond it, if anything, yet still believing this one had to go on. Why? He was never too sure. Today, it was the childish touch of warmth on his skin. Yesterday, it was the sound of that same shell he’d press against his ear each afternoon, and tomorrow it would be the ticklish feeling of the sand against his dry lips. And so the reasons would – like good little soldiers with no purpose but the one that constitutes them – line up in order, from one day onto another, until his kind memory would forget them and allow them to start the loop again. Samuel marked another line in the sand under the palm tree where he rested his head, and he drifted off into yet another – surprisingly, though comfortably – uniform world. He prayed he’d wake up again, though he was still not too sure why, or who he would be in the morning. As he never does, in the morning. Letting the salty water drip out of his eyelids, as he does every night under the empty sky, he knew he had to empty his thoughts in order to harvest them again tomorrow.
“Back to Black” by Herlinde Demaerel
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“Vis” by Andra Smileanschi
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KAT SHORE
Dreamwork is a key component of many psychotherapeutic modalities. The metaphors and symbols of stories and imagery are commonly used tools in psychodynamic creative therapies, and in my own practice as a dramatherapist I have supported clients to dramatise the imagery from their dreams, embodying parts of their psyches that have been relegated to the unconscious. Dramatherapy is a psychodynamic psychological intervention that uses the symbolism found in art and drama to bring the unconscious into the conscious. I qualified as a dramatherapist in 2017. Training to be a professional therapist involves learning to sit with parts of yourself you are at best uncomfortable with and at worst, frightened of. It’s a fraught but essential part of the process. After all, how can we sit with others’ pain before we’re able to sit with our own? In his seminal work The Body Keeps the Score psychiatrist and researcher Bessel van der Kolk discusses the power of drama as a tool to process trauma: “Since time immemorial human beings have used communal rituals to cope with their most powerful and terrifying feelings. Greek drama may have served as a ritual reintegration for combat veterans. Confrontation of the painful realities of life and symbolic transformation through communal action. Love and hate, aggression and surrender, loyalty and betrayal are the stuff of theatre and the stuff of trauma”.