BGM: L'Amour Stories by DEERHOOF
I had a dream – and it wasn’t about going somewhere. It was a dream about already being there; that “somewhere.”
I never saw myself, but I saw my hands and feet. They were connected to all the right limbs and I felt light weight; I was ready to fly!
Holding on to a heavy camel envelope, it was my portfolio of my pop-up stores – including a Candy Crush pop up store; now that one was brilliantly sleek with white curvy walls and large-size blow up candies with the special candies from the game being even larger! It was a large selection of print outs of all the ones I did and I was bringing it to the newly upgraded office of University of British Columbia’s to see the dean. Turns out, my uncle is the newly appointed head of I-don’t-even-know-what and there were all these kids in the lobby for a more “human” and “nice” effect apparently. Oh, so in this future, kids are merely accessories. Nice. I love this world.
And as soon as I opened the doors to the dean’s office, things spiraled out of control and I couldn’t handle the air pressure. I couldn’t breathe. The chaos continued and I saw my portfolio of pop-up stores and my coworkers’ faces fly into the air, the world flipped and gravity – what is gravity? French, German, and Russian lyrics floated in the air and I snapped my hands at them trying to get them away. They came at me in subtitles like a rope, trying to tie me down. Snap, slap, snap, slap.
Snap.
Slap.
Fuck.
With colleagues + photographer Kim Jungman during the Eyes of Vega exhibition at PLATOON.
