Jessica Guo is a Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist, based in Naarm. Her focus is on story-telling, making capsules based in phenomenology, evocations of personal memories, human connections and emotions. Through exploring the fragments of her lived experiences, and sharing those stories in her practice, Jessica aims to better understand herself and her positionality, her work becoming a constantly evolving ‘self-portrait’. Ine Jessica's own words: I’m a vivid dreamer and have been fascinated by the visuals created within the unconscious realm. The dream-self navigating spaces and objects challenging the fabric of reality. I’ve found that most of my dream scenarios have situated me in spaces that feel familiar and recognisable, but completely break the physics established in the waking world, often spliced with surreal events, memories, and people from my past ‘FROM THE ONEIRIC REALM’ is an exploration of interspaces and interobjects within dreams and their relationship with memory and phenomenology, excavating my personal dreamscape and dream ego. By gathering and consolidating oneiric fragments and episodic memories, with a Jungian approach to dream analysis, I use the artistic practice as the “ritual to make the dream concrete”, in an attempt to unveil the ‘self’ that is concealed to the ‘waking world’. I am curious of how it might inform my processing of certain life events, memories, or emotive responses, if the outcome will be cathartic, or if I’m left more mystified.