Flight embodies pursuit or escape. The dream of flight is an intangible image that may occur at varying levels of consciousness and intention. This dream mirrors exploration, or the scientific drive for discovery (boundary breaching of some sort), yearning to exist within a state currently unknown or seemingly unattainable.
Dreams themselves are fleeting. Memory begins to fail, creating gaps in the fabric of dream reality. While heeding physical laws of the conscious world, the dreamer must create patches to seal the gaps.
In a simple daydream, I witnessed a bird flying past a tree. As I eyed it, my mind assumed the perspective of the bird, and I decided to fly around the tree again and again. This simple scene of a bird and a tree momentarily embodied a graceful, poetic experience, which I am attempting to hold on to through physical and mechanical devices.
In my working process, the machines attempt to grasp hold of the dream, to make it real, physical. The clumsy, ridiculous nature of the devices reinforces the futility in this act, trying to steal from the subconscious a material memory, and fasten it within the physical world.