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This proposal focuses heavily on the idea of seeing but not really seeing, an altered view if you will. With the amount of multi-tasking and schedule that many people go through on a daily basis, we hardly take notice of what is really going on around us. This would give a "reward" to having viewers slow own enough to realize what is before them.

In this style, have a photography of KC and edit the image so that it's not noticeable right away, but eventually becomes recognizable. This can either be a set of images of Kansas City to go within the building or could scale the side of the Levee Shed.


An installation that would go along with this would be a reflecting pool/giant mirror. Creating a pattern of smaller mirror pieces, a giant mirror will be laid out on the ground on the corner of 43rd and Main Street, in the middle of the corner park. 2 benches will be placed near the giant mirror, for the viewer to reflect into.

euphoria dream.

euphoria: a feeling of well-being or elation; one that is groundless, disproportionate to its cause, or inappropriate to one's life situation—compare.

dream: series of thoughts, images, and/or emotions occurring during sleep; an experience of waking life that gives the characteristics of a dream.

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A rotating set of similar images on the Levee Shed. The backgrounds would be different well-known Kansas City or Missouri places. The same set of individuals would be in each of the photographs and they would all be wearing some form of a play mask, be that of an animal or something; basically their identity would not be fully known…developing this idea of being part of a group without losing yourself.

Another similar idea would be to have photographs of the dreams from post 8 up on the Levee Shed.

The third option is a brief installation at the corner of 43rd and Main Street of euphoria dream images via various levels. This would be a flat structure of about 20 by 20 feet. The top most layer would be of glass bricks. Right under that layer would be a video screen/projection screen that plays a collection of videos. The videos would be shot of different parts of Kansas City. There would be video of various points of the day of the city skyline, from different major attractions, from different viewpoints. This would follow the idea of dreams pulling from things that we see everyday, not only showing off points of the city, but also allowing any memories associated with those places to sprout up in the viewers. Viewers have the ability to stand on top of this videoscreen to feel as if they are experiencing and seeing these scenes first hand.

begets.

dream begets dream.

dream: series of thoughts, images, and/or emotions occurring during sleep; an experience of waking life that gives the characteristics of a dream.
begets: to bring into existence; give rise to; bring about.

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The focus for this would be an overall theme of dreams + dreaming. Through various medias, the idea of dreams and dreaming will be explored in the physical installation out in the park on the corner of 43rd Street and Main Street as well as within in the building via photographs and other manipulated photograph work.

The photographs  in the building would be representative of different kinds of dreams that people often have: living in the city, flying/superhero, magic, etc in similar styles of the images below. These photographs would be around the main area on the walls. Above the lobby teller on the wood would be imagery of Kansas City from a dreamers aspect.







 

Installation in the park at the corner of 43rd + Main Street would be a larger than life umbrella either well-worn or brand new. There would be a bench under the umbrella for people to sit and converse or simply think. The umbrella would be angled to appear as if it was flying towards Main Street. The idea is going a bit with Mary Poppins -esk with an umbrella about to take off...just like our dreams, brimming with potential. The main way that we often know that we are dreaming is that there is one thing that is slightly different, be that the way someone/something/somewhere or the story, something is at least slightly off balance. So, if the rest of the corner/park looked as a regular park with grass, benches, and just a larger than life umbrella, then people may pretend or start to dream of the impossible.