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Soul Returns.

 

I dream that my soul returns from the underworld. I am at my parents’ house. The Black Dog returns but this time he has some semi-translucent fly/butterfly wings. I say that I am going to check his micro-chip.

It is the middle of summer, but it snows heavily. My neighbour is outside doing something. Eventually I go out to see what he is doing. He has cleared all the snow from my parents’ garden. It looks like it hasn’t snowed at all. I ask him where my sister is and he says she has gone camping with a friend. I say, “They will freeze their arses off.”

The dream was made up of the day’s residues. I had an e-mail asking me to check the information on my cat’s micro-chip. I have been drawing fly and butterfly wings. I was listening to The Cure and the last track was The Caterpillar, “The day I stall is the day you change and fly away from me.”

The dream seems to express worry that my creative episode will not last long. My soul returns in benign form with delicate wings. He is likely to fly away again so I check his micro-chip in case he gets lost. Despite his return it snows heavily but my neighbour clears the snow around the house, so it looks like it hasn’t snowed. I always associate snow with depression, a blanket of silence. I know it's still snowing as I am really worried about my sister camping out in it. It is as though I am in a clearing in the snow. Perhaps the answer is not to stall, to keep up the momentum?

After several weeks of making art, I have stalled. I knew this was inevitable. I tried to draw a cherry in the copy book but gave up as it simply wasn’t happening. I got a sweet potato out to draw, looked at it and put it away. Too much like hard work! The problem is that I have burnt myself out with weeks of non-stop drawing. Rather than pace myself, I try to get as much done as possible whilst the impetus is there. I then run out of steam. Keeping momentum going is not the answer, pacing myself is.

Image from copy book with a fly wing.

Drawing with butterfly wing.

Drawing with fly wing.



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