Callisto Dream Painting

The Divide The Divide between the conscious world and our subconscious dreams deepens.  A chasm filled with gemstones and unpaid bills.  Wake from a dream, cook a meal, wake from a dream, pay a bill, wake from a dream, check email, wake from a dream……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. My five year old child, stirs from deep sleep, not awake, but mumbling, trying to form words. Lost in a dream, trying to catch up with it, but it is eluding language, evading reason, running out ahead of words that will try to bring it back into the conscious world, escaping from being forced into a logical system by the waking mind. Society trains us to function in a tactile and objective reality but our brain processes this information subconsciously in our sleep and dreams. “The Divide” is a series of watercolors with mixed media that explore this dichotomy; the seductive subconscious realm in contrast to daily monotonous tasks within society. Subconsciousness represented by vast blue watercolor washes and speckles of stars, the unknown. Linear time appears as a horizon in which consciousness is represented by tick marks, symbolizing the human experience of passing days. Layers of repetitive collage elements, symbolize vestiges of the past and memory. Contrastingly gilded elements, represent what is considered precious by society: gemstones and gold. I contrast these representations of the subconscious and conscious, to explore the chasm in our mind between what we want to do and what the society we have created demands of us. Framed in maple. Framed dimension: 15.75" x 24" x 1.25" Painting dimension: 9.75" x 18" x .1"