Dream Temples

Modern Fuel presents Dream Temples, which is a sculptural project that incorporates the remains of nature and human civilization into cement structures. These hybrid architectonic structures reference sacred temples for the living and the dead, ancient dream temples, and temple forms that mark burial sites. Cement is the much used construction material of our times, having a utilitarian, impersonal, and indeed, even institutional quality. Cement is a monolithic product of a culture which has so greatly emphasized rational triumphs, through its temples of consumption and production. As an opaque, dense material that is difficult to penetrate, cement is useful for a culture which has chosen to allow the proliferation of disposable meaning, through the seemingly sacred dream of materialism. Dream Temples represents a cultural site where dreams are simultaneously excavated, reformulated, incarcerated, and incubated against the backdrop of the misapprehended, unrealized human garment.