Making Space for Daydreams

I describe and reflect on the creation of my exhibition Making Space for Daydreams, containing two large sculptures and a collection of conversational audio recordings. The sculptural artworks utilize interdisciplinary techniques and both digital fabrication and handcrafted approaches, including: woodworking, hand-cut paper, laser-cut illustration, motion capture, projection mapping and pencil drawings. The exhibition explores themes related to daydreaming, and the value of recognizing and building spaces that help make daydreaming possible. In addition, the work explores presence, memory, and inner child relationships as way to understand and frame my own relationship to daydreaming. By engaging in an act of imaginative play, I collaborated with my inner child and benefited from a strengthened sense of self-identity. Through acts of obscuring in the artwork I create allowances for imagination and invite the viewer to reflect on their own experiences and daydreams.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Technologies

Department dc:contributor.department

Art and Art History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Finney, Trevor G.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Duer, Zachary R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Blanchard, Samuel Paul
• Ronan, Anne Elizabeth
• Dee, Meaghan A.

• art
• childhood
• creative technologies
• daydreams
• illustration
• inner child
• motion capture
• presence
• projection
• sculpture

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:42258

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/124423