Doctor, What Does It Mean When I Dream of Humans? Print

A fish can never rest. Neither can a human who's task is to haunt the fish. A rest is only an illusion, a temporary loss of the sense of life's true weight. Some people are good with managing illusions. But fish are better. For a fish, everything is an illusion. Otherwise its life would be unbearable. Humans make things hard for themselves believing they can tell the difference between what is real and what is not real. Humans visit the dreams of fish causing them anxiety. Unable to deal with sleeplessness, fish seek professional help. But these professionals are powerless. Therapy is pointless. In order for the fish to get a good night's sleep, the professionals would need to discover why humans show more interest in the dreams of fish than in their own misconceptions of reality. This piece is a part of a 12-piece series titled "CATCH" - the pieces share the format as well as the main motif of the juxtaposition of the fish world with the human world. Each of the pieces is created in a fish crate collected from a beach on the east coast of Istria, Croatia. Violent north-western winds knock these crates overboard from fishing boats coming in and out of the harbor. Each piece is a tableau of sort representing a stage in the development of human destiny. This piece was inspired by the 1981 installation (and photograph) "Revenge of the Goldfish" by Sandy Skoglund.