Dreams and Travels – The Art of Masha Falkov Tales of the Exotic Lands of the Mindmashafalkov@yahoo.com
Earlier Drawings
- Chihuahuan-Rituals
- cody-says-I'm-ocd
- surf-on-other-worlds
- critter-party
- Dreaming-dustin
- Drink-Coffee-and-Fly-Jet-BLue
- End-of-Days
- garknula
- We name aspects of our reality with stories, heroes, and gods. This tapestry, or string of cultural trinkets was referred to as the Glass Bead Game – so it is only fitting that a game so intrinsic to human culture would have gods governing its flow.
- lanscape-with-giant-block
- night-time-flying-story
- When Man first began to use symbols to think and communicate, there was a Big Bang of the mind. A whole universe of ideas and languages emerged, reflecting the vastness of Man's potential and diversity of imagination.
- Tides-of-the-unconscious
- As our waking reality is intertwined with the ideas and creations of other people, so are our dreams constructed from these images. It becomes increasingly difficult to determine whose dreams we are dreaming, and hence, where our identities come from.
This is the art I made from 2004 to 2009. Inspired by the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History, I wanted to put the artifacts of my travels and daily life on display. However, soon I wanted to tell more of a story. “The Big Bang” (the image with the big pink maze) is a kind of story about the big bang of the human mind when we began to use symbols in thought and communication. These drawings were the first time I had used this particular style with any success.