3.20.2012
Our Sacred and Unique Dreamworlds
I've explained this quite a few times to people but I've yet to meet someone who dreams like I do. Apparently I experience the dreamworld in a unique way.At night, falling asleep, in between that still-awake time and officially-asleep time, my brain automatically remembers where I left off during the last dream, and goes back into it. It picks up right where I left off. I've had this experience for years and was surprised once I started talking about it that it's rare.
Today I was working on a painting and went into this morning's dream, in the same way I do when falling asleep. That tells me something about painting existing within that same beyond-self state that dreams appear in. It was a delightful feeling to realize, and then to continue deeper into the paint process.
How do you dream?
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| From R e a l e y e s G a l l e r y |
3.02.2012
High Priestess of Space
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| From R e a l e y e s G a l l e r y |
2012 | 16 x 20" | graphite and paints on vellum
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I love doing self-portraits because I feel more free with the likeness. The graphite is loosely based on a grainy, overexposed picture of me so I had room to play. Much less pressure.
My friend Erin Renee offered up the idea for this upon seeing a similar picture of my hair swirling around my head. Hair means all sorts of things to different cultures, and suffice to say, it's always played a part in my self-expression.
But beyond the individualistic and group implications of various hairdos, it carries a different intrigue for me as well. In Dzogchen (pre-Buddhist Tibetan shamanism), when a master leaves the earthly realm, s/he dissolves into rainbow light and leaves only the hair and fingernails. These parts of our body are different, somehow. Less water and stardust, perhaps, and more earthly.
Either way, this piece was a study as I'm attempting to add to my animation skills. I learned a lot in making it and am already plotting the next one:
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