Nicole Trengove

Fine Art sculpture student studying at Winchester school of Art. My interests revolve around dreams, altered states of consciousness, illusion, spirituality, individuality, colour, and light.

SelfEvaluation> First question, What is your work about? > Can someone tell me if this sounds okay?

My work investigated the nature of dreaming and all aspects that surround it, from its different variations e.g. Nightmares, lucid dreaming, day dreaming etc. to the influences and nostalgia it may or may not provoke on your day-to-day real life.

 

As well as this, I focused on the perception of color through identifying that the responses from the viewers are subjective and no opinion is ever really the same as another’s. I also noticed that color is completely dependent on light, which made me wonder if the color one person sees is the same as what someone else sees, if the different variations of light change the colors appearance, and if color really exists at all. From that last statement (if color really exists), made me take out some scientific research. Science is not really being my forte, which made things really difficult to understand. From what my mind could comprehend, I learnt that our eyes contain a specific cell that allows us to see color, and if that cell is altered, or even removed, the color in front of us would not exist. Still in keeping with my scientific approaches to my work I ended my research with two hypothesizes. These are:

 

1.     The color we see will never look the same to someone else

2.     The color we see does not really exist

 

The second hypothesis is more of a follow on from the first. What I am trying to state in the simplest way put is, color is purely a figure of our minds emotional connection from an understanding we attached it to in the past, therefore color, as a whole, is rooted in memory, and is not physically there.

 

Dreaming is sort of the same, rooted in memory wise. It takes on a huge importance to our well being. Through dreaming we can act out our deepest fantasies with no disturbance or the inclination of authority telling you its wrong. As well as this, dreaming almost maximizes your emotional state (my dreams do anyway, I couldn’t know this for sure), which could possibly affect you in the ‘real’ world.

 

This is the link I found between dreams and color, that no matter what way you look at it, they are both completely memory rooted. They provoke a response, and our basic understandings between the two are completely varied. This to me contains part of the reason why individuals are individuals (mind, body, soul etc.), why we all think differently, and can never see things the same as the other.

Sometimes accidental mistakes work well. 

Having a little play with my little bed. Make shift spaceship in the making?

Back where i found it!

Next Project. 24/01/12

First idea failed, got annoyed and did this instead. 20/01/12

First (sort of) solo exhibition! Dreamachine exhibited at the Railway toward end of last during Stranglove.

First (sort of) solo exhibition! Dreamachine exhibited at the Railway toward end of last during Stranglove.

Second experiment of the Dreamachine. Held at the Artelier. 11.11.11. Used colored bulbs; red, blue and green. All went very successfully….. no one left with a headache!

I’ve just had my first ‘exhibition’ of the Dreamachine. It was more like an experiment to see how people react to the flickering lights. I’ve had mostly positive feedback but people did leave with headache! The dreamachine is an installation designed to been seen with your eyes closed. As the lights flicker over your eyelids, a kaleidoscope of colours appears in the dark space that gradually become more complex and beautiful. It was first designed by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommervile back in the 60s after Gysin’s ‘accidental visionary experience’.

Experiment 10/11/11