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Furry Trinity

Dreamed 2021/3/1 by Wayan

THAT NIGHT

I'm watching a slideshow of art, but I only like one piece. It's furry surrealism, and I LOVE it.

A couple pose for a portrait on a sofa--a sentient wolf and an elegant big cat. No--no couple. A triple. Snuggled up with them is a white, long-furred... cendog? Centaurish frame, dog head & tail.

Round these three are pets--dogs and housecats on the chairbacks, the mantel, curled up by them--but nonsentient, you can tell at a glance. Just as it's obvious the central three, though just as furry, are people.

Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

And then I tilt my head a bit.. and the three mates dissolve! They're illusions made of collaged smaller figures & images. Not flat cutouts, but art and pets in the room that line up to create the three--out of pictures hanging on the wall, and sculptures, or mannequins (half of one leans on the mantel, with a picture behind it providing head and torso). Like stars lined up by chance to create Orion. My perception shuttles between an empty room full of only art and pets, and the three figures composed--collaged--out of all they've collected, or nurtured, or made. Bodies made of deeds.

But is this really just illusion? I start to suspect these successive views show, not different art pieces, but successive approaches or versions of one piece.

I tilt my head a bit more, and the very room dissolves--now I see a slender equine girl--biped, but with pointed ears and tail and a delicate spiral horn, in a gauzy white ritualistic robe, all wrong for the setting: she's crouched on a small, rough wooden raft, consulting a map as she drifts down a great river.

This is no later version of the same piece. Different species, aura, number of figures, settting, action... The connection must be there, the artist linked them so a mere tilt of your head brings the shift... but what's the connection, what's it mean?

Unicorn girl in gauzy white dress, rafting down a big river. Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

I settle my head back to its original angle, and the furry triad reappears, surrounded by art and pets... Retilt, and they dissolve into collaged pieces...

How does the display send different images to different angles, different viewers? Technically impressive... a layer of microprisms over a high-res screen, and interlaced pictures. I've seen novelty stills do this with two images, but never a changing computer display, and never three. Or are even more still hidden?

I wake thinking "Huh! A dream image about... dream images." All those meanings at all those angles!

And all those reductionists, from Freud right up to last week, claiming it's this or that.

BUT WHAT'S IT MEAN TO ME?

"Surely," you think, "the dream can't be about dreamwork itself, and how we limit it. It has to be personal, not public"--only for me, not for all of you too. The experts say so, after all!

Fine. Chuck my silly shamanism out the window. "A dream is a private letter to the self." Say that's so...

Well, all three views do reflect deep truths about me--as a trinity, as a unity, as a... nonentity? They don't even seem in conflict:

3: Trinity! On my bed, sleeping with me, are three lifesize, lifelike, hand-sewn furry dream-figures like these--the Foam Furs. For a mystic my life's richly sensual.
Yet...
1: Unity! I'm a lone unicorn--solitary, magical (predictive & telepathic dreams). No false modesty here; I know I'm unique. But lazy, I confess--drifting with the current down the Mississippi of time. Why not? The ambitious aren't happy. Or, alas, good.
Yet..
0: Empty! Look through the eye of autism or the eye of Zen and I'm as empty of self as I can manage. In essence, I'm only my art. No one here at all.

Thumbnail dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

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