#497 Dream Of A Banana

Filler, oak panel, banana

This work features a banana placed on top of the panel.

Dreams are often considered intangible, existing somewhere outside the material world. But of course, as involuntary chemical processes in the brain, they are deeply material. Perhaps the same can be said of hopes and aspirations. They are hard-wired and precede consciousness. When they have to be expressed in reality, the problems begin, even to ourselves. To be effective and bring about change, they have to leave the realm of raw materiality and be formulated in the language domain. But language has to be grounded in materiality to function. And matter is not easily structured. It is mute and without boundaries. Our distinctions are always muddled when encountering the dirt of the earth. Yet, only there can we make our dreams come true.