Fariba Bogzaran
One Night of Sleep Exhibit
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“. . . she combines modern science,
in the form of polygraph charts,
with the traditional Persian and Turkish techniques of marbling, creating a swirling flow of viscous paint across the rigid graph of the paper to meet the lines that mark the breathing, brain weaves, and heartbeat of
a dreamer recorded in a sleep laboratory.
Two very different forms of recording human energy; one mechanical, the other free form, one literal and addressing the mind, the other mysterious, spontaneous and appealing to the eye, are made to coexist in a kind of cultural fusion of East-West pragmatism and Mid-eastern tradition. Contemplation of these works can lead the viewer into new terrain and toward
Two very different forms of recording human energy; one mechanical, the other free form, one literal and addressing the mind, the other mysterious, spontaneous and appealing to the eye, are made to coexist in a kind of cultural fusion of East-West pragmatism and Mid-eastern tradition. Contemplation of these works can lead the viewer into new terrain and toward
a heightened awareness of the forces
that animate all existence.”
-The Third Script:Lucidity of Light, 2008, p. 10
Martica Sawin, Ph.D., art historian, New York.
Author of Surrealism in Exile.
One Night of Sleep was first exhibited in 1988, Association for the Study of Dreams conference, University of California Santa Cruz. Twenty years later, 2008, at the exhibit, The Third Script held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
