Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation started with two artists wanting to revive their inner child. At play in their studio, garment designer Kay handed theatre director Jing a pair of scissors and some staples and soon, he was making puppets out of her garments. This began a devising process which has become their way of working.

Kay’s way of embroidering clothing with traces of human experience readily translate into stories for Jing to tell.

"inspired by legends and create new myths…
Our belief in life in objects has led us to design garments inspired and adapted from vintage clothing that contains stories and memories. Our garments are devised through play and manipulation with old clothes. Through play we create new myths for the clothes each season, resulting in visual catwalk narratives."

"We love what is not spoken.
We love dreams that foster in our heads.
We believe that daydreamers are the lost children in the society, and that the creative potential of a society depends upon them.

Daydreamers are the missing link to the poetics of life of which our society is slowly neglecting.
‘Daydream Nation’ is an attitude. It is a way of life in which people see boats in buckets and hear sea waves in radio glitches. ‘Daydream Nation’ is a hope that someday people will respect a silly thought like one respects a great painting, and that one day everyone can share and enjoy the subtle shades of beauty in the everyday.

We hope that daydreaming will not become a minority game of the artists but a way of thinking that anyone can embrace.
Daydream Nation belongs to everyone."

Jing