felicia glidden

In my sculpture, video and sound work, I am looking for pathways into the unknown and the invisible; the place on the edge of awareness, the unspoken sometimes unknown motivations for action.  Dreams serve as a doorway to access these behind the scenes occurrences of the mind.  By mining my dream journals from the past 25 years, I weave together threads of recurring themes; water, roads, and movement.  Using sound, spoken text, video and sculpture, I seek to reveal layers of thoughts, intentions and actions of myself and those around me.  I talk with artists about their experiences on the road, or in their dreams, and layer their voices with my voice to bring forward the notion the universality of our experience, and perhaps our motivations. In concert with the dreaming mind, metaphors are woven into my work as a way to turn around an image and become closer to this invisible realm of thought. I seek to recreate the sensation of being inside of the mind, as if the mind were a landscape one could walk around inside.

I would like to know more about faith.  What is it? What drives it? Can it come from the outside in? I look to art history, religion, and my ancestor’s movements across the Atlantic Ocean through time to reveal what motivation is. How does one come to believe there will be something better in another land, in the afterlife, in their faith? Continual movement throughout the video acts as a trigger for the wandering mind. Where do our thoughts go as we move through space for example while driving, flying or spending time on the road? What triggers our return to consciousness?  How does memory play a role in this experience?

Sides of my head from Felicia Glidden on Vimeo.