Diane Rusnak is a Bay Area
artist and art teacher. Her dream-inspired art has appeared in many
exhibitions, including several past ASD shows.
Artist's Statement
Early in the morning of September 11,
before I heard the horrendous news of the attack on the World Trade
Towers, I had a dream of a rectangle with its upper left corner being
blown out.
Later I created this personal flag
image, "We Are Here," in response to my uneasiness with the
nation wide display of patriotic flags. By creating my own flag,
incorporating the dream image of September 11, combining tower and
flag imagery, I felt that I was showing my own truth of this
life-changing event. The star area in the upper left corner is a view
of the universe and we are just a tiny dot in it; thus, "we are
here."
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"Rectangle Dream
Image: September 11, 2001"
(collage, 14"x18") |
Also, looking through dream
journals of a year before in September 2000, I discovered the
"Second Tower Dream" as I call it now. I cut out two
towers from enlargements of the dream journal page and smeared
them with ashes. Since the dream refers to impending danger in
two towers, I take this dream to have been a premonition |
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