In the Checker Board Playground: Uncanny Valley by Natalie Paneng Natalie Paneng’s solo exhibition, Uncanny Valley, opened in June 2024 in the checker board room at The Blue House gallery. Uncanny Valley expands her practice…
Some of these dreams feel like obstacle courses, the decisions you make to save yourself or move further within the dream feel predestined and all you can do is observe and be moved like a pawn on a chess board.
I never knew that the POV within a dream reveals more about the dream itself. In fact, I never realised that I was always seeing the scene and never myself within the landscapes. If I ever see myself in a dream, from the POV of me seeing me, I know the version of me I see is not the current version of me. It’s not just about me being there, it’s about what I am doing there and why.
Workshop collaboration: Natalie PNG in Wonderland In 2022 David Krut Workshop (DKW) invited Natalie Paneng to collaborate on a series of unique works on paper with printmaker, Sbongiseni Khulu – a…
The dream about the time I was in a meadow of pink and green foliage and flowers. I was wearing that chessboard dress again and in the sky was a huge flower made of more versions of me and my dress. It was big enough to be a cloud or a spaceship. I held my hand in this position again, holding a single hand-drawn flower. I must have picked it from another meadow, in another dream.
The dream about the time I held a balloon shaped like my head in a sea of heads shaped like mine. It was completely silent, like an internet backroom, of sorts.
The dream about this abstract space that was both indoors and outdoors. My outfit matched the floor again. I was holding onto two balloons, shaped like my head. I couldn’t see the string but could feel it, I could also feel the force of the balloons but somehow I was rooted on the ground and didn’t float off into the abyss.