Design Interpretation

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Monet’s purple is not merely romantic.
It is rebellion.

A total rupture from academic orthodoxy.
A shift from pursuing the absoluteness of color to embracing its relativity.
A transformation in artistic philosophy — from rigid metaphysics to dialectical unity.

Claude Monet is the master I admire most.

So when I decided to begin a series dedicated to great artists, the first tribute was inevitable.

It had to be Monet.

NOV.

An abstract pond.
Chaotic. Disordered. Alive.

Beyond color, this is also a homage to Monet’s breakthrough in form.

It was Monet who dismantled traditional composition and subject hierarchy. He redirected painting away from accumulated formal rigidity toward the instantaneous expression of nature and daily life.

That conceptual shift was revolutionary.

By prioritizing fleeting perception — those lightning-strike moments of inspiration — he paved the way for Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, and countless movements that followed.

The Water Lilies series, especially, pushed the exploration of blurred boundaries so far that many regard it as a precursor to abstraction itself.

Magnified sensation.
Courage to break and rebuild.
Reason, always carrying a slight madness at its edge.

Every time I revisit Monet’s spirit, I feel nourished.

Time and Life

In his later years, Monet suffered severely from eye disease.

Yet just as Beethoven did not abandon music after losing his hearing, Monet never abandoned painting.

Cataracts distorted his color perception profoundly.
This meant that beyond deliberate artistic choice, he also had to fight against physiological distortion. In simple terms:

His illness forced him to overcorrect color to an extreme.

Paradoxically, those later works developed a luminous, almost hallucinatory glow — a psychedelic radiance born from both resistance and necessity.

Not only did these works not diminish his artistic power, they arguably influenced later art movements even more deeply.

Monet never bowed to fate.
He became, in a sense, an unbroken prisoner of light.

The resolve of the masters is something I remind myself to honor.

On Pairing & Customization

Dreaming is about pursuing ultimate customization.

Objectively, as a designer, I hesitate to say too much about recommended kit pairings — I don’t want to precondition your creativity or limit your interpretation.

But subjectively?

Beyond the soft purples, pinks, greens, and fluorescent yellow accents —
I’m secretly curious to see this set paired with mist-translucent kits.

Perhaps it’s my subconscious obsession with the hazy softness in Monet’s paintings.

I’d love to see how you interpret it.

Show me your combinations.
I genuinely enjoy seeing them.

LOVE.