2025,- EUR*
reserved for private buyer from Germany until 31.12.2023
on public display at Hayat Bir Sanat
Dream Hard. Work Harder.
Success comes with determination, passion, obsession to what you do. Often times this is associated with "working hard".
What makes us work hard though? A purpose, a goal, a vision, a dream.
Why then we don't start to dream hard first? Dream so hard, that dreams require no sleep. Dream so hard, that anything else fades away. Dream so hard, that it is already the reality of your life, without even being real.
It's Worth Thinking Of Dreaming
Dreams exist to turn them into visions. Visions exist to turn them into goals. Goals exist to turn them into reality. A dream is not just a fantasy. It can be a calling. And dreams deserve to be thought of. Over and over. Adding details, changing specifics, clearing questions.
Sometimes, we let ourselves convince from all that is around us that we probably supposed to have what we have. That this is all the product of what we were and lived. That destiny might have chosen this path for us.
In fact, destiny has given this path, this life that we see in present. Yet, destiny has many more pathways, detours, routes and experiences for us to be aware about. And in a few moments of stillness, it knocks on our souls door, just to briefly hand us some colorful flowers we call dreams.
History
This installation has undergone multiple stages in its creation. The original wooden plate was used as a desk as I newly moved into my studio. From time to time, I invited both friends and business contacts over. On any of their visits they were allowed to stickerbomb my desk with a few stickers I gave them.
By the time the desk got full with stickers, it represented a myriad of hopes, aspirations and lengthy conversations about the future to me.
In winter 2022, I made a trip to Hamburg, where I both had a great time and met inspiring personalities. As we sat in an hotel restaurant for breakfast the other day, we were talking about life goals.
All of a sudden, the term "dreaming hard" was born. It struck my soul to have heard such a concise and precise wording of what I felt about my life goals that I decided to create an individual artpiece for this.
In summer 2023, I began to conceptualize that a urban-style paintover to the now dismounted table desk would theme a "rebellious passion" and put the claim "Dream Hard" into the light of aspiring, hopeful souls.
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