‘The Dreaming Pool’ was a drawing comission for the Aarhus School of Architecture as part of their annual public exhibition; ‘The first drawing of the year’. The work was created live, over 5 days, on a 12 metre stretch of wall at the shool. A public talk was held at the opening to take the audience through the making of the drawing and the exploration into how we occupy our architectural imagination and asks the questions; where is the space for dreaming in architecture today?
The act of drawing as a way of seeing creates a freedom to wonder and daydream as the life of the drawing, and the imagined possibilities of a projected space, overlap with the life of the waking mind. Through this exploration of dreaming and drawing, the relationship between the dreaming of a line and the line of a dream is investigated, simultaneously on paper, on the wall and within the imagination. The perspective from which The Dreaming Pool is drawn sits on both sides of the projection. The goldfish, the viewer and the architect looks both into and out of The Dreaming Pool.
The common practice of separating the imaginary idea from the reality of the drawing becomes irrelevant and instead the drawing and the dreaming are inseparable, thus translating the imaginary into the real.