Artist State­ment

“This is an ongo­ing, grow­ing col­lec­tion of cyan­otypes of dust from under­neath dream­ers’ beds. Each cyan­otype is cat­a­logued with the subject’s dream. Cyan­otyp­ing is a camera-​less pho­to­graphic print­ing process that requires sun­light to embed an image onto paper. Cyan­otypes were used by botanists to study plants, and by archi­tects to cre­ate blueprints.

I would be grate­ful if you could mail me a palm­ful (or more) of dust from under­neath your bed that I can cyan­otype, along with a sen­tence or two describ­ing some­thing you dreamt last night. The dust can­not be clas­si­fied with­out a dream and your name. I’d like to even­tu­ally make a video instal­la­tion using the final col­lec­tion. Thank you to the very few peo­ple who are not bored or scared by con­ver­sa­tions about dreams we’ve had in sleep.”

About the Artist

Hyunch Sung is cur­rently pur­su­ing her Master’s in Land­scape Archi­tec­ture at RISD. She has her M.F.A. in Film/​Video/​New Media from the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chicago and before that she stud­ied Lit­er­a­ture and Film The­ory at Amherst Col­lege. She enjoys kinet­ics, ges­ture, the mov­ing image, and landscapes.

Sub­mit­ting Dreams

Hyunch Sung
Rhode Island School of Design
2 Col­lege Street Box #376
Prov­i­dence, RI 02903

Ques­tions

hsung@​risd.​edu

Full cat­a­log com­ing soon.

Jen Leigh Siani

“I had a dream where i was under stress so i went to go weave to real­ize,
as i was weav­ing a beau­ti­ful man who was translu­cent pasted through me and I felt better”

Hoyun Son

“My mother.”

Rachelle Crosby

“Some dream world friend and I were trans­plant­ing a few of my cac­tus. The crazy thing was that as soon as the cacti were out of dirt they imme­di­ately began to dete­ri­o­rate. So we were in this mad race to get them from bad dirt to good dirt. The amaz­ing thing was that I could pick up the cacti and not get pricked by them and when one fell to the ground and almost died in ten sec­onds, I picked it up and started to rejuvenate.”