Painting by Carolina Sardinha

Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Fabriano paper 285 gr/m2 70 cm x 100 cm - diptych 2021 D R E A M S C A P E S series Shaping the mist. Unveiling the reality beyond matter. The series of works "Dreamscapes- shopping the mist" questions the limits of our spatial understanding. Our visual angle is much broader and contains multiple vanishing points and perspectives of the forms that compose it. It goes far beyond capturing an image from a single angle. Thus, by using photo montages taken from the same point but with different inclinations and angles as a basis for work, spaces are created in which we feel integral parts. The limitations of photography or classical representation formatted within the confines of a rectangle are extrapolated using polyptychs. Moreover, this small curation of works addresses the theme of non-matter. That intangible entity that permeates our sensations and experiences. Each artwork seeks to capture and give shape to this invisible dimension where our dreams reside. These dreamlike visions, as real as many physical elements, take form, transcending the tangible. This confrontation between matter and non-matter exposes the inherent strength and power of everything that escapes materiality. It lays bare the vast emotional territory that exists beyond physical forms. A mist of explosion that does not stop there. That propagates. That, while seeming to dissolve, never fades away. It materializes into other things. The ambiguity of the cloud, that piece of nothingness that personifies our dreams. Dreams that are nothing more than that, a nothingness that is already something. Here, matter gives way to the mists. Not only those that will solidify, but also those that were meant to be and never were… “Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers, Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.” "The Dream Keeper” - Langston Hughes “And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 5, Scene 1) - William Shakespeare “The world is a world of dew And within every dewdrop a world of struggle. The truth I do not know, I seek it vainly here and there, And when I have it straight and full, I am untrue to it.” “The Dreamer” - Paul Laurence Dunbar