Garrett Davis, a graphic designer and artist based in southeast USA, isn\u2019t trying to illustrate what dreams look like, but rather what they feel like. In his absurdist illustrations, dream logic is unhinged, lawless and alive \u2013 they\u2019re mixed media playgrounds where characters are made out of anything, from worms to ghosts to television boxes. \u201cSometimes the stories don\u2019t fully make sense, and I\u2019m okay with that,\u201d says Garrett. His computer is filled with unfinished works where he doesn\u2019t force completion, but allows them to cultivate naturally over time. Combining physical and digital tools, he draws scenes with paint and crayons, scans them into editing software and transforms them into compositions, then repeats the process of printing out and scanning again to capture natural grains and textile elements. The results are immensely satisfying to look at, combining the strangeness of postmodern art and graphic design that deserves to be framed in your living room.<\/p>\n
Drawing from the golden age of comic books, David Lynch and information in his day-to-day living, Garrett peels back human psychology through multi-layered symbology and their almost random explosions of data. \u201cA lot of my work revolves around the human body and brain,\u201d says Garrett. \u201cI think those two things hold endless potential for meaningful storytelling.\u201d Through floating heads and dream-like technological devices, the viewer is asked to remix these elements in their own mind, attempting to solve an innate puzzle that lies in all of us, and Garrett himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrett Davis, a graphic designer and artist based in southeast USA, isn\u2019t trying to illustrate what dreams look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}