This phone project by Matt Roberts, Terri Witek and Michael Branton invites you to plant a floating garden of dreams on Stetson University’s historic campus. Use your phones to text in 7-word dreams and watch these appear via your phones to fill and cross and layer the air on the quad. As a political space, Dream Garden offers greening without colonization or displacement. As a community garden it suggests that our dreams aren’t wasted—they are growable, transplantable, and in the space of the project, both virtual and real. Follow this link for instruction on how to visit the Dream Garden at Stetson University. Below are dreams sent in by previous participants.
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forced relations with diseases – tumbling down hills
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explosions of rotted flesh, spilling maggots & pus
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unending corridors – face to replace your own
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his hand trailed along, only to meet prevention
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you invited me to come with you
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escaping it by boat and air balloon
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only red, yellow, and prying eye avoidance
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in the bathroom mirror, attempting to shed
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you reset – told me everything over again
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he tried to rip off my clothing
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baffled with the knowledge of my name
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sink filled with teeth that don’t belong
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the guilty mouths understand but one thing
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mascara and butchered genitals, craving blissful novelty
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of her, blue-eyed blondes, introductions to sex
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crawling through cracking, makeshift, multi-colored, airplane units
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faintly forgotten names bite, bringing stinging remembrance
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circling parking lots – avoidance of exchanged women
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forbidden writing conferences eclipsed by beach snow
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you reacquainted your tongue with her taste