Catcher Multi
project help!!!?
ok for school in art i am doing a multi-cultural theme and I want the project to have something to do with dream catchers but i'm not really sure how to make that multi-cultural. Can you give me some design ideas
There's a concept known as "dreamtime" amongst the Aboriginese people of Australia, which is very prevalent in their speech and perception of the physical landscape around them. The names they give a place is always associated with the activity that is done with it, so if they're out and about and make a camp, they may refer to "the place where I sleep" or "the place where I cook"... there are no direct translations for "bedroom" or "kitchen". The "dreamtime" element also refers to period in Earth's history where they believe their ancestors roamed the world, and if they see a mountain, there is a story associated with it, and they believe that the mountain IS their ancestor, and there is a story about how he or she came to rest there. The same applies to all the forests, rivers, streams, hills etc. that they travel through. This "dreamtime" for them is simultaneously in the past and in their waking present.
Maybe you could do something about different perceptions of what dreams are, with the Aboriginese view providing a contrast to Western perceptions of dreams, for which we think we have ot be asleep. What has to be captured? The dreams while we sleep, "daydreams", dreams as in our aspirations, or the Aboriginese view of dreams being the physical world around them? Maybe do a little research into what different cultures classify as being "dreams", and think about doing a project that designs metaphorical "dream catchers" for these different types of dreams. In the case of the Aborigines of Australia, I think there's a case to be made for the retelling and reciting of folklore and cameras both functioning as "dream-catchers" because the history of their world and the physical landscape are both "dreams".