Alma Ruiz

The Dream Trilogy

2020

Many times, I only remember a small part of a dream, and that is what I have recorded in my thoughts and my memory, and I then translate into words. The dreams that I can vividly remember are the dreams that I have written and talked about in this project.

The drawings that I made during the Yoga and Dream Lab have surprised me a lot because it is the first time I have had this experience. At the end of class, we have to draw a picture of a dream that we had or about a moment in class, something that has inspired us, that has made us think, or that made us react. While you wait for your turn, you have to complete a drawing, so it has been an exercise in concentration and expression. Not knowing how to draw, I have resorted to abstraction. This has been a kind of salvation in the expression of what I have wanted to say. The difficulty of being able to make drawings that people can recognize has led me to express myself differently, and I have done it through abstraction.