Brian Hoover

I find the idea of a prescribed orderly world very mundane .To me, the strangeness of dreams, enigma and the vastness of the unknowable universe, are proof that we are perhaps part of something very big and completely beyond our comprehension. These ideas are part of my own spiritual philosophy and play an important part in my artistic exploration.

A lot of the imagery I come up with is derived from dreams. For several years I have been very regimental about keeping a dream diary by my bedside. I found if you don't scribble some very simple notes down about a dream soon after you wake from it, you'll forget it by morning. Houses, both strange and familiar, are reoccurring themes in my dreams, as well as elemental things such as wind, water and fire. I am aware of the Jungian impulse to interpret these things outright, but I am equally satisfied to be awed by the seemingly infinite and unknowable well that they originate from.