Doge’s Dream

Visual realisation of dreams recreated in embroidery.

Doge’s Dream is a part of Aleksij Kobal’s series ‘Forbidden city’, created in order to portray the human secret desires, fears, nightmares, everything we hold repressed in the subconscious. Kobal attempted to capture the images in small repeating details, precisely illustrated facades, repeating into the fractal infinity and disappearing into vague horisons.

Using a special embroidery technique, the building stands out, as if a Venetian facade was truly built around a clear blue sky. The concept, colour combinations and the philosophy of layering are identical to what was used when original painting was created. And the embroidered texture adds a whole new dimension, a dreamy blur, undefined and yet even more physical.

About motif

What could be more exciting than a visual realisation of our dreams, like a turn of camera obscura, like admission to our subconscious, into the only legitimate reality? Let’s watch the barely tangible spill of sand from one bulb of the hourglass to the other, and we will eventually find ourselves in the Doge’s Dream, where inside a Venetian arcade building gently clouded sky magically glows. We suddenly wake up from reality, as if from an unyielding empirical armour of a nightmare into a lost children’s paradise. The buildings become mere backdrops, onto which we cast our renaissance credo like everyday clothes. We set out, in an unknown breeze chilling our bare skin, towards the vague, indistinctive, but beautifully fulfilled horizon.

Deep zoom of the artwork

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Artwork info

Motif: by Aleksij Kobal
Type: Embroidered painting
Technique: Mixed embroidery
Year: 2012
Edition: Unique

Dimension: 166 x 137 cm | 65.4 x 53.9 in
Number of stitches: over 6.8 mio
Thread length: over 82 km | over 51 mi
Development: over 1700 person hours

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