Inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s works around dreaming and quilting, Mariquitx invited participants to take part in a gathering and collective performance in which they explored dreams from an individual and collective perspective.

Honoring Alisha B Wormsley and Kite’s project, Cosmologyscape, and the idea of translating dreams into patterns, and informed by the Mariquitx’s hand-poked tattoo practice, we contributed to the cosmic quilt of dreams by collectively performing dream-inspired tattoos in the form of symbols on a large translucent surface. Participants were welcome to bring a dream they want to work with, but it was not exclusive, everyone was welcome. Mariquitx designed and provided the dream-inspired symbols, and they guided participants throughout the whole gathering. We related our dreams to the symbols using our intuition, to then embody them into the shared surface that will become a reflection and live manifestation of our collective dream. To finish, we had a short journaling session in which we translated our collective dream into words, and find connections with our individual dreams.

Mariquitx is a queer artist from Buenos Aires, based in Brooklyn, NY. Their process-driven practice extends across mediums including tattooing, drawing, sculpture, painting, and socially-engaged art. Grounded in abstraction, their hand-poke tattoo work has unwrapped new forms of expression, through which they explore the interconnection between skin, boundaries, vulnerability, and healing. For Mariqutix, tattoos are a co-creation, and hold the possibility of generating a shared space of care and healing. During the tattoo process, each poke creates a wound. Mariquitx considers how these can become channels through which vulnerability flows through, dissolving the barriers that divide us from all others. An eternal mark, a trace of a transient connection, becomes one with the skin.

About Cosmologyscape

This program is part of Creative Time’s public art commission Cosmologyscape by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite. The multimedia and participatory public art project, presented by Creative Time, is an invitation to the public to dream. Cosmologyscape seeks to harness the duality of dreams—as both individual tools of self-awareness and collective acts of imagination and world-building—and encourages the exploration of dreaming practices through an artist designed interface. How does it work? Take a nap, zone out, find your dream state. After that, visit www.cosmologyscape.com to submit your dream, and if you need help dreaming, follow a Dream Path on the website designed by a group of interdisciplinary artists. The dreams shared with Cosmologyscape will then be translated algorithmically into a pattern derived from Lakota visual language and Black quilting references, represented first in a growing digital tapestry of our collective dreams, and ultimately, into a series of sculptures unveiled in the fall, designed for further rest and dreaming.