Artist Bio:
Meaghan Busch received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in 2008. Presently She is a second year MFA candidate in Critical Art Practices at George Mason University. She works predominately in printmaking and soft sculpture, with her imagery from prints becoming the blue prints for her sculptures and installations.

Artist Statement:
To Sigmund Freud dreams were the “royal road to the unconscious” while “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters” to Henry David Thoreau. Dreams offer an opportunity for both interpersonal and intrapersonal exploration. Dreams have no written language and must be personally recorded. Dreams once recalled are often relevant only to the dreamer’s life.

We work out our understanding of the world through both experiences and dreams. My childhood was filled with dreams and memories revolving around the circus, folk tales and old European fairy tales like that of the Brother’s Grimm. My only real childhood bond to my father was through the stories he would read to me each night. The original purpose of these tales was to provide enjoyment but to also teach children social codes and values. I spent most of my childhood playing in the forest in solitude and obsessed with fictional stories I was read. As an adult I am currently out of touch with my father and distanced from my family. I now find myself going back to these tales and replacing the tales I remember so fondly with my own imagery, twisting them into my own. I use dream like references to things going on in my own life currently as a means to adjust, adapt and also prove to myself that from those tales in a otherwise possibly meaningless act of reading them that they did impact me and make me who I am, even if they were in the end fiction.