Your Dream Cur-Ridiculum Vitae

Making your Dream CV or Cur-Ridiculum Vitae

In the month of November of the year 2008, it was reported (and most likely under-estimated by half) that 579,000 people that live in the land known as the USA lost their jobs. As this out-of-work scenario bombards the landscape, the misery of job-hunting, resume writing and frustrating employment searches threaten to drag even the most cheerful among us down into the gutters of miserablism.

In response to these economic downturns, the HOT TODDY CARDBOARD ART SHOW, hosted by The Teeny Weeny Gallereenie, invited artists to create alternative 'dream' resumes or CVs. This Dream CV was not a resume or curriculum vitae for a dream job (although we do wish all of you the best of luck with that); rather, it was a visual statement showing those marvelous accomplishments that the artists have made while dreaming. The best thing about the Dream CV is that no one knows what you dream, so the artist could do whatever they wanted to do. You can dream whatever you want to, or you can say that you dreamed, well, whatever.

These fantastic Dream Deeds are vital to our individual feelings of well-being and toward reaching the wealth of our wildest imaginations. Sleepless nights can rob us of some of our most amazing feats. While the sleepless person may try to collect dream compensation from the Bureau of Insomnia, there is no waking equivalent of a good night's rest. A dream can take you to a world where you slink through an underwater maze of kangaroos to suddenly, and magically, escape through Charlie Chaplin's secret trap door to picnic with raccoons on a brick wall--bursting into flames just before you wake.

If, while sleeping, you grow giant wings and soar over the tops of Mountains made of a glove and Yoko Ono, then a range of foothills equipped with giant Razor-sharp Teeth—escaping the clutches of a kidney-shaped blob—this is quite an accomplishment, deserving of a visual mention on your Dream Cur-Ridiculum Vitae.

The Teeny Weeny Gallereenie Cardboard Shows are an on-going experiment in collective, visual representations of dreams, and using our dreams to redefine our sense of accomplishment and wonder. As my friend and fellow cardboard artist Carla Evonne commented, "Don't box me in."

Next,
The MAD LOVE
St. Valentine's Day Massacre Cardboard Show

Feb. 12, 13th
through
March 2009