Weird Dream
Friday, 17 July 2020 10:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelLast night/this morning I had a weird dream that turned abruptly very dark. But before things got weird, I dreamed that I was organizing and/or attending an exhibit for my last year of high school art class (which I did not complete, I did two years and then switched to focus on science classes). I was talking with my teacher about which pieces to show and how to format them, and telling her that I didn't remember the pieces I exhibited in previous years (on brand for me).
What struck me most was how clear a mental image I had of one of the pieces I was exhibiting, and how the whole thing had a kind of... unified aesthetic. The image I remember was kind of abstract, but it was black-on-white, ink or charcoal I think, and it had a vague tall structure in the background that had beams or columns visible, and a lower, more vague structure in the foreground, like a burrow or low hill, a pile of dirt and rocks. In the dream, I was discussing with my teacher how the structures in the image were supposed to suggest buildings, not outright show them, how it's open to interpretation.
I also mentioned something about being inspired by gothic horror, and when I woke up I realized that the style reminded me of the one once employed by an artist friend of my late grandmother. Sort of.
This was a seriously weird dream, with a kind of familiar mix of things making too much sense, and no sense at all. I realize that reading about other people's dreams is usually terribly boring, but this one was unusual enough that I had to put it in writing.
What struck me most was how clear a mental image I had of one of the pieces I was exhibiting, and how the whole thing had a kind of... unified aesthetic. The image I remember was kind of abstract, but it was black-on-white, ink or charcoal I think, and it had a vague tall structure in the background that had beams or columns visible, and a lower, more vague structure in the foreground, like a burrow or low hill, a pile of dirt and rocks. In the dream, I was discussing with my teacher how the structures in the image were supposed to suggest buildings, not outright show them, how it's open to interpretation.
I also mentioned something about being inspired by gothic horror, and when I woke up I realized that the style reminded me of the one once employed by an artist friend of my late grandmother. Sort of.
This was a seriously weird dream, with a kind of familiar mix of things making too much sense, and no sense at all. I realize that reading about other people's dreams is usually terribly boring, but this one was unusual enough that I had to put it in writing.
