TELEDREAMING was a transportative, structural and auditory installation in the shape of a large phonebooth. The piece used cardboard, found objects, ephemera, and “junk” to explore the unconscious, dreaming world. A tin can phone inside the booth connected callers to the sounds of poetic dreaming. The poem that played inside the installation, DREAM JOURNAL, reflects literal dreams in a confusing and cluttered mental landscape. Take-home transcripts of the recording were available.

I was inspired by the technicolor videophonebooth from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. I grew up on the show and I’d always wanted one for myself. I wanted to explore my own dream world on a large, playful scale. Clutter, both mental and physical, play a large role in my life and I wanted to explore that, too. I find myself letting clutter take up temporal, mental, emotional, and physical space. Where I might find myself desiring to dream of hope, I instead find myself ruminating on worst-case-scenarios. Or, more benignly, contemplating the manufacturing process of cardboard boxes instead of working on an upcoming project. Where does this mental clutter come from, and where does it take us? What does it mean to live with it, in it, alongside it? What futures arise from cluttered dreaming?