Nathan Huff
Sadness Sleep and Santicity
2017
Handmade basketry, altered furniture, sewn pillows, found water glasses
dimensions variable (image: New Media Gallery, Ventura College)
The dreamscape has long been a source of inspiration for artists. As any insomniac or dreamer may tell you, the act of interpreting these intertwined situations teeter between observing the domestic mundane and a fantastical adventure of untangling threads of nostalgia and memory. In installations like this, I explore these impractical even harebrained scenarios interrupting our normal reality. While they celebrate the intuitive and subconscious they also offer new awareness to the present moment.