Welcome Visionaries
Imagine it is 2030. What do you see when you look outside of your window?
Think about the environment, your country, city, family, education, gender, poverty, health, water, hunger, life below water, life in the air, life on the ground, life in your mind, life in your heart, equality, identity, peace, your biggest dreams.
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The Big Dream is envisioning the future of countries around the world. Inspired by hundreds of dreams and into artworks that are puzzled together by thousands of yoga mats with collective sessions, meditation and yoga. Around the world and throughout 2021 to inspire the decade ahead in an optimistic, collective and beautiful light. Inspired by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, dream big with us and explore the last two Big Dream below for some inspiration…
In a world of growing of inequality, anxiety, climate change, uncertainty, a paradox of choices and decisions, it is important to come together. To dream with the foundations of what we have and the visions of what we desire to change.
It sometimes feels as if cynicism is trendier than dreaming and that the word ‘dream’ doesn't fit the current zeitgeist's lexicon. What would Salvador Dali or Martin Luther King say to the anti-dreamers? Every second song has the word dream, we dream in all hours of the day & night and collectively many of us have the same dreams.
The Big Dream became a creative pursuit to articulate just how bright this future can be through a collective visualization and installation. Traveling around the world, The Big Dream collects hundreds of dreams about the future of each country in 2030. Crossing borders, languages, cultures, and differences, inspired by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. These dreams are then turned into an artwork that is sliced into thousands of yoga mats. They are puzzled together to create the artwork on large scale for yoga, meditation, dance & sound healing activities. Dreaming together on the dreamt up future.
The Big Dream Tel Aviv 2017
The project brought together a collection of 500 dreams of coexistence, culture, environment, peace and freedom. Dreame commissioned incredibly talented & imaginative Dreame artist Amit Trainin to transform these dreams into one artwork.
“Look outside your window. What are your dreams for Israel in 2048?” was the question posed. These dreams were illustrated into one artwork which includes Venetian inspired water tunnels in Jerusalem, cloud factories generating rain in Haifa and an Express Line to India traveling throughout the Middle East. The artwork was initially presented as a 1400 m² installation in Rabin Square; the first artwork in the world to be puzzled together out of yoga mats. Rain actually fell out of the sky when the first mat with a cloud on it was laid out. The dreams were coming true.
It was one of the largest artworks and crowdsourced artistic projects ever created.
Once the installation was puzzled together, thousands came to meditate and practice yoga on the artwork. It was communal in how it was inspired, built and practiced on. Today each of the 1500 mats are all over the country; with a piece of the artwork with their individual owners who are reminded daily of the The Big Dream.
The Big Dream was live streamed to 200,000 viewers on Time Magazine. Here you can see an animation of the final artwork and the creation:
500 dreams inspired this final artwork. Spot the tea pots generating rain clouds, the direct train line to India and China implying travel through the Middle East, hundreds of yogis on the beach & solar roof tops.
The Big Dream 2017 Close Up. Photograph by Abir Sultan
Winner of Best Photo World Press Photo
The Big Dream Jerusalem 2018
The project brought together a collection of hundreds of dreams about the future of Jerusalem. Dreame commissioned incredibly talented & imaginative Dreame artist Amit Trainin to transform these dreams into three artworks.
“How would you like Jerusalem to be in thirty years? was the question posed? These dreams were illustrated into one artwork representing the Utopia Jerusalem, another artwork with a train leading from Jerusalem to the dead sea implying The Dead Sea will exist in thirty years (inspired by many dreams) and hundreds of mats, each one an individual future Jerusalemite.
Once the installation was puzzled together, thousands came to one of the most magical valleys in the world for sound healing, meditation and yoga.
Illustrations by Dreame Artist Amit Trainin. Future Jerusalemites inspired by the citizens of Jerusalem.
The Big Dream reached China on December 31st, 2020
This picture. Made up of thousands of words.
Celebrating the future, the utopian world in 2030, with a Dreame artwork inspired by tens of thousands of dreams from around the world and turned into art by 6 artists.
“When I grow up, I dream of being a diplomat that represents my country in space and makes alliances with distant worlds ".
This is an example of a child's dream in Chengdu, China. One out of 100,000 dreams collected from individuals of all ages from more than 100 countries, all united to create The Big Dream.
A global artwork created by Dreame illustrators around the world. Traveling, transforming, and growing throughout 2021. Projected on museums, city halls, and public spaces, ending in space in 2022.
Today the first part was unveiled in Chengdu. In partnership with Maya Peleg and the consulate. Thank you for believing in it from day one.
At the stop are some stars. My illustrated dream for 2030. For when we look up at the sky we will see the symbols of the core humanity values such as empathy and honesty and be reminded to act wisely every night. Thank you Or Shoham for co-illustrating with me.
And to Jean LaSoul the director of the artists and the final piece. Thank you for your patience and creativity. And to Coco, Nikita, Bev and Aafke; the other brilliant masterminds and talented artists.
Thank you Ami Becker Aronson for your sisterhood, belief, and partnership. Shirlee Klein Ofir Charlap Emma Lee Amy Sorensen Shaked Harel for all your support. And to all the co-dreamers and partners in this project so far.
2020 was a year of many words, emotions, and global pain. May we dream bigger than ever before and also come together for our big, bold and beautiful planet.
The Big Dream at the Top of Manaslu
Every day we take one step higher. For ourselves, in our journeys, for better or sometimes worse, we can only improve with lessons, reflections, and actions.
The Big Dream reached new heights. Vincere, an incredibly inspiring mountain climber, took some of the dreams in the art form to 8163 meters above the ground. To the top of Manaslu Mountain. Thousands of dreams for the future of the planet turned into art, first unveiled in Chengdu with Maya Peleg, now to the top of one of the world's highest mountains and soon around the world, as the art expands, ending in the International Space Station, thanks to one of the first Big Dream believers and collaborators, Amit.
Vincere's dream is for people to become more independent, freer when it comes to their thinking, and just do whatever they think they can do.
Vincere’s dream came to life after a long journey but it is also a reminder that dreams are also a journey within our minds.
The Big Dream kicks off in Times Square on December 2nd, 2021
The Big Dream installation continued to travel to Jerusalem, Chengdu, China, and Manaslu, Nepal, and now so many dreams coming in from the City that never sleeps - New York City. It was held in ZAZ10TS Gallery in Times Square, NYC.
The Big Dream still collects more dreams from around the world for the future of our planet. Dreame Artists will put it together into one amazing video art, to be projected in 20 locations worldwide on 2.22.22 before its journey to the International Space Station with the Rakia Mission.
The Big Dream Gallery
