Dreamtime Dreaming
So near and yet so far
Each work depicts a story.

In “La Philosophie du joujou,” Baudelaire describes how children take apart their expensive toys while playing in order to recombine their parts in ways that match their imagination.

Imagination and dreams are closely linked, with imagination functioning as a creative tool that gives shape to inner images, desires, and emotions, in which the ability to form associations plays an important role.

Dreams are a complex phenomenon. Freud wrote a huge book about dreams, which he called Traumdeutung, in which the making of associations based on unconsciously perceived events from everyday life during sleep takes center stage.

Dreamtime or dreaming, the time of dreams and dreaming, is for the Aboriginal people of Australia something like actualizing one’s view of the world in order to continue living in it. In this, they do not really differ from others, except that they interpret the world differently.

I chose it as the title for a work based on medical microphotographs, in which I tried to discover associative figures in the microscopic tissues and then visualize them with marker.

Shoobil is an artist-initiative dedicated to experimentation, collective practice, and process-based work.
Shoobil operates as an open, evolving structure for artistic exchange, where the emphasis lies not only on finished form, but also on the unfolding of ideas.

It is a space that supports artists in working across disciplines, testing raw material, and creating outside the pressures of curated timelines or institutional expectations. Exhibitions, music, conversation, and collaboration intermingle fluidly. The boundaries between artist, audience, and space remain deliberately porous.

Shoobil offers a setting where roles are flexible and structures emerge in real time. Projects may arise from long dialogues, sudden improvisations, or shared urgencies. What defines the program is not a fixed agenda, but a continuous negotiation between people, context, and intent.

At Shoobil, presence is valued over product, and relation over resolution. It provides a space for ongoing interaction without haste or predetermined outcome; an open space for slowness, mutual support, and shared becoming.

The space further blurs the line between making and showing, between private process and public encounter.

Shoobil continues to grow organically through collective energy and a shared commitment to experimentation.