Touch Points for Identity Project (Continued)

For my identity project I will do a series of five digital paintings that might include some more fine arts materials such as watercolor or inking but they will be primarily done by digital means.  These five "paintings" will be sequenced and named Concepts of Dream Identities.

Each "painting" will depict a scene of a dream.  None will be literal representations of actual occurrences of my life, but they will try to depict some type of mood, feeling, etc of the experience.  Right now I'm going through a type of artist funk where I realize an artist will never be able to fully get across their meaning or intention to the audience.  The viewer will always view a piece with their emotional or experience "luggage" or their lack of it. 

That sounds very pretentious on my part but there is truth in the statement.  A viewer who has never had their friend go missing for two years, knowing that they were murdered by their father and also knowing that the murderer could never be caught without the body.  Going through the psychological trauma of desiring their friend's body to be found, only two years later having the friend's remains found in a field, and not enough of it for a trial to be started, the viewer normally won't get it.  Even more so, they'll probably translate it completely wrong or even be so turned off by it that they ignore and draw away from it.  I'm tired of trying to portray experiences like these and having reactions like these.  You pour so much of yourself into it for nothing.

So for my project everything will be in a dream state, nothing too literal or personal so the viewer will literally be thrown off.  There will be traces of feelings felt, but nothing that reveals too much.