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   iif_milan · 2011-10-26 16:38

   Hello, I am the contest administrator from the Italian Institute of Photography. Thanks for submitting the photo to our "What does dreaming look like?" contest. To complete your participation in the contest, please write in the comments section here a description of why this photo represents or interprets dreaming. Best of luck!

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   amaltheia · 2011-10-26 18:55

   In our dreams, we are free. And so is our vision.

   When we are awake, our eyes are limited by the laws of the physical world around us. However when we dream, our mind's inner eye is unfettered. It is free to use familiar objects from our waking hours as building blocks to create new and novel visions. As our body rests, our inner eye is active: combining, superimposing, mixing images in ever new combinations.

   My photograph attempts to embody this subconscious creation of compound images. Clouds, branches, leaves, a tree... all familiar things. But in this photo, they do not obey the laws we know from our waking world. They are free to float one above the other in a blissful concoction, a layering of soothing images, free to arrange themselves in a way that perhaps makes sense only in a dream.