Field of Dreams (Deferred)
Synopsis
Field of Dreams (Deferred) is a real-time memorial to the unfulfilled dreams of the living. The installation, inspired by and created from the words of people around the world and Langston Hughes’ Harlem, John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, and W.B Yeats’ He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, is a modern memorial with a purpose: It honors the death of possibility, potential, and engagement in a dispassionate, disconnected, sterilized age.
The exhibit is not pretty or slick or elegant. It is not television or a news program. We experience the world through screens as real life passes us by. We live other people’s ideas, needs, and desires as we deny our own. Field of Dreams (Deferred) replicates the mundane experience of modern technology and self-denial in an expansive physical space. The result is a kind of purgatory; An in-between soul-space; a dark dream elegy that invites the viewer to examine his or her connection to circumstance and choice.
The onscreen text feed is a never ending scroll of user-submitted dreams that could not be achieved due to fears, financial constraints, personal obligations, and/or lack of opportunity.
They are shared publicly by participants from every corner of the globe via an online form; This data is networked to a live feed and displayed onscreen in the space in real time.
Submitted dreams populate the space like instant messages, giving the visitor the opportunity to engage and connect with the intimate desires of people around the globe. 4K, live feed footage of daily life in capital cities in every country on every continent bring the world to the viewer in a single physical space. The places, the people, and their dreams are live and real – raw, moving, and accessible.
Illuminated dots of blue, like luminescent petals of the Forget-me-not, float on screen to represent the data —- every user, every dashed dream – the spark within that connects us all.
There will be no stone monolith erected to the purpose we deny; No memorial rising from the landscape to commemorate the living we are missing out on right now. Field of Dreams (Deferred), vast and ominous, is a reminder that time is not promised, but there is still time to take a chance.
Field of Dreams (Deferred)
About Margo Neely
Margo Neely is an internationally recognized polymath creator-inventor whose work pioneers new technologies, media forms, and cultural systems through practice, experimentation, and execution rather than trend-following pipelines. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy, technology, and human behavior, Neely conceives, designs, engineers, and launches original intellectual property that operates simultaneously as artwork, tool, and lived system.
Neely is best known as the inventor of the Neely Air Freestyle • Neely 33 Sound Shoe, a wearable drum-machine technology that fused music production, movement, and design into a category-defining object, achieving more than six billion in global reach organically. She is also the creator and director of Ladies Revenge Club, an award-winning television series named “Best of the Festival” and “Best Series” at New York Comic Con and New York Super Week’s Geekfest for its innovative narrative and production model.
Neely’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, writing, and invention, producing precedent-setting work studied, built upon, and activated across artistic, academic, and technological contexts, shaping models for how original ideas become durable cultural infrastructure.
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