Originator 2: So tell me. Three nights straight?
Originator 2: It’s an odd sort of dream.
Originator 1: Yes. A dream I can’t comprehend.
Originator 2: What did you see in the dream?
Originator 1: I can’t tell you in much detail what they were. The things that appeared in my dreams weren’t anything I could recognize.
Originator 2: Go on.
Originator 1: What I saw in my dreams seemed somehow off. Skewed to one side, I guess? Like they’d been twisted in some way. They all seemed like they might disappear. What could this dream mean? How did I end up dreaming it? Was it a real dream?
Originator 2: I found myself thinking of a man who has escaped into his dreams. What did he see there? What could he have learned?
Originator 1: It’s not about escaping. That man had nowhere to go but his dreams.
Originator 2: You can’t dream dreams in a dream. What you dream is reality. No balance is struck, and the things that don’t change don’t change.
Originator 1: That’s right. Of course, the dream isn’t anything important. But I thought I should share the story of that dream.
Our work starts from this question: can we actually be happy in a meaningless, irrational reality where things that fly in the face of any right thinking or standards are happening on a daily basis? By expressing the fear and confusion that come from living in a twisted, incomprehensible dream of a reality, we are trying to emphasize the need to fundamentally re-examine a reality possessed of something more essential.
Not only that, but by asking questions and giving constant thought to what the “essential” is, we hope to examine where we stand now, offering an opportunity to fix our current situation and understand what we need to do.
This is not a matter of dreaming of some utopia that does not exist in the real world. We are stating a simple truth: that we need this process of going back to the beginning, over and over again, and re-examining the essential.
