'Unmasked' is the name of this image that was created long before the Dreamku. This is a Dream Haiga about the act of dreaming not any particular dream. As I worked on my blog 'Patchwork Faces of the Moon' I remembered this art and wrote the Dreamku. It seemed to fit in with the theme of my book and added an interesting visual.
asleep and unmasked
I fly through layers of dreams
shadows of the moon
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'Tree Watcher' is a reflection of many dreams I experience where everything seems more real than reality. Things are clearer, poignant, alive -- rather like Alice in Wonderland meets Bilbo Baggins.
The message is a Dreamku series. Dreamku is a form of verse akin to Haiku. Most rules apply, but being dream-based verse, these phrases try to capture a moment in a dream. As a series, the verse may encapsulate several moments, but each separate three-line stanza should stand on it’s on. Many of you will remember Patricia Kelly from her workshop last year. I have worked with her all year by email and in her Yahoo group, Dreamjin, learning the art of Dreamku. It is an excellent tool for dream exploration an often cuts to the core of the dream when you are searching for that perfect word.
past and future
beneath your sentinel gaze
collisions abound
like heat waves
our lives mere shimmers
ancient eyes blink
human echoes trace
heat rising fast to heaven
you frozen between
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'Piercing Eyes' is a good example of how creating art can help you focus on your dreamwork. After I started manipulating photos of myself in Photoshop's Image/Adjust/Curves ... It didn't look much like me anymore. I thought ... I know that face though ... it looks Native American ... I have seen it in my dreams. It is the face of a man, and in my dreams he is dressed rather like anyone might be, so I don't know exactly how I know that he is American Indian. He does seem to be wearing long hair in a pony tail. He is never a main player in my dreams, but a reoccurring extra ... so to speak. I started remembering him only after I saw his face in my art. Then I recalled him lingering around in the peripheral of my dreamscape. I hardy ever notice him in my dreams ... but remember him on awakening. I think he is a good guy. Maybe an ancestor trying to get my attention and guide me. He does look a little like me ... in a strange-colored dream-altered kind of way.
piercing eyes
quiet mixed blood holds
proud Cherokee traits
I should mention that I am part Cherokee.
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'Ink Blot Doors' is an image created to replicate a hypnagogic vision I had just before falling asleep. It was a moving image something like the jerky movements of a digital movie interrupted by a storm. The man was just passing by ... not trying to come through. This may have been my first glimpse of my Native American dream visitor. Maybe he saw me ... see him and decided to come back time and again. The man in the art image does somewhat resemble the shadowy figure of my vision, but not exactly. The model for this was my son; he was very patient. He was also the model for 'Tree Watcher'.
three ink blot doors
each one closer to me
a man passes beyond
There are several versions of this Dream Haiga on my blog, 'Patchwork Faces of the Moon'. I chose this one for its rich tones. Although, it might not be the closest to the image that I saw, I believe it portrays the feeling of that experience better and is more esthetically pleasing.
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'Night Perfume' was just fun and should be self explanatory. My friend Patricia Kelly had this to say: "IIWMD: is this a reflection of things lightening up in your life? And your being able to follow your own creative 'nose,' so to speak, more often? :-)"
The magnolia is a dreamlike image that may have inspired the dream that inspired the Dreamku. I think that Patricia was right, the key word here is 'inspiration' to fly to what sweetens my life.
fairies dance in flight
following their noses
sweet magnolias
I may add fairies to the image later; if so ... they will look rather like Tinkerbell in the old classic that stared Mary Martin as Peter Pan and 'a little ball of floating light' as the fairy. Although I think that the absence of them along with their mention in the Dreamku allows the viewer to add their own vision of fairies to the moon lit bloom.
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