Dream Paintings
These paintings were made as dreams, intuitively without intention of subject or interpretation. They are meant to communicate like instrumental music or as poems of what feelings look like.
The titles are keys, not definitions. It is not the interpretation that is important, it is the process of interpreting that strengthens the minds ability to connect concepts in novel ways. The paintings are made as abstractions in the Surrealist tradition of automatic-writing. As abstract visual metaphors, they promote creative thought, non-linear thinking, and to inspire dreaming.
”You say I’m a Dreamer, but I’m not the only one” -Lennon
“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” - from Cinderella
”Dream a Little Dream of Me” - Lyric, Gus Kahn
”I have a Dream” - Martin Luther King Jr.
The carousel has more examples of my dream paintings:
“Stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions.” — Leonardo da Vinci
watercolor & gouache
11” x 15” (17” x 21” framed)
Forces pulling this way and that.
Trying to hang on to passion without being controlled by it.
Waters of Want flowing deep within,
Green growth reaching out,
Old man inertia walking backward,
The deep-blue core knows the way.
This painting alludes to deep truths. We wrestle with inner forces all the time. Sometimes we don't even know what they are! This is a painting to reflect in, to see what you see. One day it will be one thing and another day something else.