Artist: Joseph Diveky
"As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy,
and for some of us that world of make believe
continues into adulthood."
Jim Henson
This picture by artist Joseph Diveky immediately got my attention. It reminded me of my childhood story books. In early years, pages in books had borders and there were many artful characters in the picture. As a person would read the story, the creative mind absorbed as many details from the page as well. The characters came more alive and the story took on deeper meanings.
In this piece of art, the child sleeps while the musician plays on. The book still open offers the words, but who knows where the child's mind has gone. I feel quite certain while she is dreaming, she continues to hear the music.
Imagination allows the dreamer to be the president, artist, musician, writer, poet or the greatest athlete in the world. Dream time is a space where anyone can run and play.This space of fantasy can offer us great adventure or night time fears. We are an artist in dreamland. It is where we deal with unresolved subjects overflowing from reality or hidden passions and desires.
NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern is a very interesting book of fiction. It is filled with imagery and fantasy and yet allows the reader to feel as though they are engaging in normal life. This creative piece of writing is filled with the author's imagination. I cannot help but wonder how many of the visualizations came from her dreams.
Stephen King gets many of his story ideas from dreams. Robert Lewis Stevenson's story of Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde first appeared in dreams. Mary Shelley's dream was Frankenstein. So it is safe to say that our creative spirits offer us inventions, insights, stories, and wisdom during our sleeping times. It is a matter of remembering. What to do with the content is up to the dreamer. One can carry inspirations out into the world or express them in a variety of creative ways.
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