December 2017
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The Shape of Dreams (detail of sequence)
2013-2017
Digital photographs
42 images in the series
© Marcus Bunyan
The form of formlessness
The shape of dreams
The Shape of Dreams
A Christmas present to myself… my most complex and enigmatic sequence to date.
Shot in Japan, all of the images come from two 1950s photography albums, one of which has a large drawing of a USAF bomber on it’s cover. The images were almost lost they were so dirty, scratched and deteriorated. It has taken me four long years to scan, digitally clean and restore the images, heightening the colour already present in the original photographs.
Sometimes the work flowed, sometimes it was like pulling teeth. Many times I nearly gave up, asking myself why I was spending my life cleaning dirt and scratches from these images. The only answer is… that I wanted to use these images so that they told a different story.
Then to sequence the work in such a way that there is an enigmatic quality, a mystery in that narrative journey. Part auteur, part cinema – a poem to the uncertainty of human dreams.
Marcus
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A selection of individual images from the sequence
Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled from the series The Shape of Dreams
2013-2017
Silver gelatin print
© Marcus Bunyan
Sequencing The Shape of Dreams 2013-2017
Sequencing The Shape of Dreams at a cafe table in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria in July 2017 with my friend.
Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Sequenceing ‘The Shape of Dreams’ 2013-2017
July 2017
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