Thursday, November 15, 2012

Two of my favourite topics in class today - painting with a palette knife (Bourduas) and painting from your dreams.
We also discussed Refus Global... so on that note: Down with reason, make way for magic!

"The Spirit of Texas" Jennifer Morrison
It "...is not a style. It is the cry of a mind turning back on itself" 
- Antonin Artaud
"Burning Giraffe" Salvador Dali

"Conceptualizing dream imagery as a metaphorical narrative is analogous to understanding the underlying meaning of an abstract painting"
-Myron L. Gluckman

I've always had excessively vivid and, well, violent dreams. I'm not a disturbed person or anything like that at all, but almost every night I die in my sleep. I don't watch alot of creepy shows or play violent video games, I don't know if I really buy into the whole "influences of the social media" argument. Everybody thinks differently but one thing is always the same. We are all looking for something; love, money, happiness... I don't know. Maybe my dreams are trying to tell me that I want someone to take care of me and keep me safe. Or maybe I was a serial killer in a previous life and this is my pay back. Who knows. I'm sure that Freud would have some pretty interesting theories though. 



Susanna Shap

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