Silky's Woodcuts
Dreamed 2006/12/15 by Wayan
I carved wooden blocks to make a set of color prints. Or maybe I just used scratchboard or digital graphics to fake woodblock prints, I don't know. But I proudly issue the set in a box opening on one edge, like a boxed set of books.
The series shows my anima Silky as a mare-girl, mostly human but with a mare's pointed ears and tail, sitting in a light wooden chair, drinking tea and contemplating a series of round ink sketches on the wall--that famous set of Zen paintings of an ox. Rough and woodcutty. Colorful. Each print shows Silky from a different angle, and not quite the same moment--time shifts as well as space. Like the panels of comics.
I think there were ten, but I woke hazy on some; here are the first and last three, as I recall them more clearly.
The very last panel has just an empty chair. It's like the last of those Zen paintings, the one titled "The Ox has Left."
The Nightmare has left. But I wish she'd come back.
NOTES IN THE MORNING
This dream may hide a couple of messages under its skin:
My dreams are rarely just art prompts. Filly's Quest is more like Silky's Woodcuts--mixed. In that dream a picturebook both glories in images for their own sake, and critiques heavy-handed Freudianism, using sex and humor to lure me into shamanic dreamwork--dreams as life experiences, not codes to crack.
I'm not alone in the art thing. A lot of Jenny Badger Sultan's dreamlife, like Moving in the Landscapes of my Dreams, and the majority of Jim Shaw's published dreams, are prompts for art experiments. At least the ones he draws! Remember that, before you get too skeptical. Naturally a website focused on dream art & stories will have dreams about creative concerns! It's not that I, or Jenny, or Jim never had dreams about anxieties, or a sore toe, or tomorrow's appointments.
But also... woodcuts.
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