
Art Journal Monday- What Do You Dream About These Days?
What are your dreams, when you dream- if you dream- what do they resemble? What shapes do they take?
I dream of saints and mountains and the golden flow of time. Those with bruised, dirty feet covered by heavy cloth, mini swirls of dust teased up by the movement of their path. I dream of outer space; the known exciting possibilities and established hard scientific rules….and smash them together with dreams of the fantastical and thoroughly unknown and almost impossible. I lose time on thoughts of deep and dark forests, the peaks of powdery mountains unfurling endlessly in the distance, and the sensation of tiny waves passing over and over at my feet as I stand up against the fury of a nameless ocean with my hands utterly empty at my sides.
Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see notes of music flow underneath my hands as I pass them over the cold keys of my neglected keyboard, sounds both known and not coming apart underneath my fingertips, their composition disintegrating just as they reach completion in someones ears. Colors splash like blood spatter against paper when I trail my hands over my art supplies, and in my head it’s all an endless parade of anything goes and the laws of what is physically possibly by hand do not apply.
Dreams are so nonsensical- until they’re not and then when they make sense, you wonder if you can trust anything at all. They’re hard to explain, and even harder to make into any kind of reality and it’s so easy to get lost in them, the purity they hold so different from waking life.
What are your non-sensical dreams made up of, what basic building blocks of components do they share, if any?
Music on Repeat-
Ave– Famy
Giving Up My Echoes– Belgrave
Beautiful Hell– Adna
Til My Heart Stops– Too Far Moon
Dreams Today– Efterklang
Deep Shadow- T.T.L
A Historic Love- Trevor Morris
Opus 36- Dustin O’Halloran
~m