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If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes.
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The speaker describes their work as creating “kind of dreamscapes”: imagined, dreamlike worlds or scenes rather than straightforward depictions of everyday life. The phrase is also a simple way of explaining what they do to someone—including themselves—without relying on the label “artist.”
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