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Drowning Unconscious 1
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drown [droun]
verb. drowned, drown·ing, drowns
1. To deaden one's awareness of; blot out
un·con·scious [uhn-kon-shuhs]
adjective
1. not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
2. temporarily devoid of consciousness.
3. not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought: an unconscious impulse.
4. of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings.
Water symbolizes the personal unconscious–the locked trunk in the back of your brain filled with experiences you'd never (consciously) known you've experienced. Your personal unconscious works as a security guard to shelter your conscious self from earlier experiences deemed threatening by your subconscious self. In Drowning Unconscious Bre creates a space where her subjects–enclosed in a tub of foggy, unclear water–remain trapped alike their own subconscious thoughts and experiences. The series–consisting of 3 diptych's–portrays an aerial view of the subject in the bathtub, paired with dream-like portrait of them submerged in water. By using powdered milk to create cloudy water, Bre creates a metaphor for the personal unconscious and through a lack of clothing, her subjects are given another glimpse of vulnerability. While the mind and bathroom both represent private spaces, Bre encloses her subjects "permanently" within these spaces allowing them play prisoner to their own subconscious self.
Drowning Unconscious 1
cargocollective.com/breelbourn
drown [droun]
verb. drowned, drown·ing, drowns
1. To deaden one's awareness of; blot out
un·con·scious [uhn-kon-shuhs]
adjective
1. not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
2. temporarily devoid of consciousness.
3. not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought: an unconscious impulse.
4. of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings.
Water symbolizes the personal unconscious–the locked trunk in the back of your brain filled with experiences you'd never (consciously) known you've experienced. Your personal unconscious works as a security guard to shelter your conscious self from earlier experiences deemed threatening by your subconscious self. In Drowning Unconscious Bre creates a space where her subjects–enclosed in a tub of foggy, unclear water–remain trapped alike their own subconscious thoughts and experiences. The series–consisting of 3 diptych's–portrays an aerial view of the subject in the bathtub, paired with dream-like portrait of them submerged in water. By using powdered milk to create cloudy water, Bre creates a metaphor for the personal unconscious and through a lack of clothing, her subjects are given another glimpse of vulnerability. While the mind and bathroom both represent private spaces, Bre encloses her subjects "permanently" within these spaces allowing them play prisoner to their own subconscious self.