A Dream Within A Dream
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The second and final iteration of a five-person collaborative project, this series of six postcards were designed for Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “A Dream Within a Dream”. Our first iteration explored the concept of creating a personal reality from common elements. As a group we came together after the course’s conclusion and revisited the project to bring it to a product with which we were perfectly satisfied. This iteration explores a visual progressive descent into emotional chaos, a theme we discovered in the poem.
Fellow Collaborators: Jessica Egan, Santina Horowitz, Jenn Kieke, Colleen Rielly
“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
”I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
