DayDream is a project where I collected 27 daydreams from invited participants around the world. These people are all known to me. I asked the participants to record their daydream at the exact date of 6.2. and mail it to me.

The participants are kept anonymous as daydreams can be very private and I have devised a method of sharing the dreams without revealing the identity of the participants. The people who were interested in taking part recorded their daydream using any possible method they preferred. I received e-mails, words, music, memory stories, story boards, craft pieces, collages and photographs. I used this material as a point of departure and designed the embroideries from that.

The final piece is an installation of 24 pillows holding the embroidered daydreams of the participants on them. Three of the daydreams became some other form of 3D pieces.
Th original daydreams from the participants are exhibited in a form of text and photographs, offering a ‘key’ to each individual embroidered piece.

Liminality and voyeurism, the space between visible and invisible, individual and communal, private and public form the underpinning investigation of the DayDream project. The aim is also to query into the processes through which we acquire participation, emancipation and agency. Dialog and critical awareness were the driving forces behind this collaborative piece.

An element of participation can be built into the exhibit though artist talks, workshops and further collecting and sharing of daydreams.