Dream Machines (2001) edited by Susan Hiller, is a book of works relating to altered states of consciousness, such as dreams or hallucination. Below is a selection of the artists who appealed to me due to their work with drawing and narrative, as part of my research development in FMP.

    

Jonathon Borofsky records all of his dreams and in his work re-imagines and transforms a single dream through multiple versions, for example drawing onto paper/a wall or painting on canvas. He is selective of the dream images used, aiming to only focus on ones which seem relevant or might resonance to other individuals, rather than "unlock the secrets of his own unconscious". 

I admire the style of his work and have researched this artist further to investigate the 'rough sketch' quality of his work. The technique used of re-drawing the same thing multiple times in various ways would allow the artist to be flexible within his work, and is an approach which I aim to practice with my own dream drawings.

Louise Bourgeois uses drawing in a therapeutic environment, by retracing her thoughts and memories of a day through drawing nocturnally when she cannot sleep. The drawings represent another unconscious state different from dreams, yet in a ways could be understood as the representation of a dream in another form. The work appears as ambiguous, containing unrestricted shapes and forms that are open to multiple interpretations. The approach she uses is reminiscent to me of automatism, since the artist conveys "her thoughts, memories, obsessions, angers, fears and joys" all through these drawings. Whilst not strictly relating to narrative or a strict dream drawing I find this technique very interesting, and also sympathise with the artist's inability to sleep, and this method seems like an interesting way to record one's waking sleepless thoughts.

A book titled Sogni/Dreams published by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, was offered to visitors for free as part of a distribution project curated by Francesco Bonami and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Participating in the book were one hundred artists, who were asked to share "one of their necessary dreams they would like to see become a reality". Despite this very few artists used the concept to include a hope for the future, instead offering personal dream narratives and images. This resulted in the book being "a window on to the unconscious sources of contemporary creativity".

Jane Gifford's Bordeaux Diary (1996) is a dream diary that documents the artist's working trip to Bordeaux. Made immediately after returning, the material from the trip was used as the basis of her work and depicts her mental state throughout her visit. All remembered dreams were included, with pages left blank for days forgotten and extracts from her waking diary added to the dream accounts.The diary portrays her time of being away from home, and working to short deadlines without being able to focus on her own art. The drawings accentuate her feelings of isolation and alienation during this time, and merges waking and dreaming realities in an unsettling and very personal manner. I admire the diary format of the work; it reminds me of my own dream diary but with added illustrations. It gives me the idea to illustrate my own diary, adding drawings to my accounts of dreams.