March 26, 2005
Art dreams
Here's a random one. I've never tried to make art, save for a required elective class during my freshman year of high school, yet about once a month I have fairly vivid dreams about art of my own design. This morning, right after the "ice hockey pick-up game with the (invented) sons of two art dealers" dream and right before the "trying to wash my hair in a public water fountain in a foreign country so I could go to a surprise birthday party, all the while being bothered by a food vendor in a language I didn't understand" dream, the somnambulist me created an entirely new--and quite stunning, I thought--body of work for a painter whose work I like. It will be interesting to compare my dream to her next solo show.
An artist friend in LA recently recorded her dreams for an entire year, made miniature maquettes of all the artworks therein, and then placed the models in a dollhouse-scale rendition of her childhood home.
Does anyone else have these kinds of dreams? Have any non-artists been inspired to try and make what they invent in their sleep?