Ruth Thomas

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M E N O T M E

My 2023 dreams in 32 meters

Like my previous work EN VOIR DE TOUTES LES COULEURS, this work is also based on my sleep data recorded in 2023, which I used to determine the number and duration of my REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep phases, i.e. the dream phases, over the course of a year.

Here, each crocheted stitch corresponds to one minute of dream. The minutes of a single dream phase are crocheted together and the direction is changed after each phase, thus resulting in the partly linear, partly planar (or in other words: partly one-dimensional, partly two-dimensional) nature of the work.

After every 100 crocheted dreams, I added a mark with a red sewing thread, which in turn determines the hanging of the over 30 metres long work: At each mark there is a 180 degree change of direction.

The title alludes to me as a dreamer: It's me, and yet it's not me. It is my thoughts and images that come up in my dreams, and yet they are not mine. I can neither direct nor control them. This mixture of me, and yet not me, makes every single dream a universe of its own.

(Crocheted metallised yarn and red sewing thread, ca. 32 m, 2024)

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