Monday, February 7, 2011

Submerged in Slumber

 Nicoletta Ceccoli, Beedream, 2007 
 Marie Francois Constance Mayer-Lamartiniere, The Sleep of Venus and Cupid, 1806
John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
Zhao Kailin, The Dream Back to Tang Dynasty, 2010
Elena Kalis, Sleep Walking
Felix Vallotton, Sleep, 1908
Lucian Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995
Forrest Jessee, Sleep Suit, 2006
Chu Yun, The Sleeping Women, 2009
 Henry Peach Robinson, Sleep, 1867

Sleep, a deep well of inspiration for countless artists; like the moon that pulls on poets. Something so elusive yet so pertinent to our beings, an enigma that once we surrender to, consumes us whole. As the night-sky blinks its black dusty wings above our faces, we enter into a state where the unimaginable can reveal itself... winding into the labyrinth of our unconscious minds "chance becomes direction that we cannot see; discord, harmony not understood". A fragile thread streaming inside of us, wanting to connect us to the next piece of the patterned patchwork puzzle.

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