Animals in Dreams

An animal in a dream doesn’t represent a rational idea, but rather hints at a relational experience to be had. Animals are not a medieval bestiary that serves to moralize me in terms of their behaviours. Dream animals are alike unconscious and instinctual envoys for one's life.

With paint and brush on large canvases I’ve worked on the epithets of four-footed beasts, flying feathers, and crawly insects. An animal’s head is the leading eidos of the animal as if its head presents its specific physiognomy condensing and exhibiting the qualities of animal consciousness. 

In my paintings I take the idea of the animal into my own body. I’ve tried to get myself inside an animal. I want to see deep into an animal, bird, or insect. My paintings are further amplified with poems as musings of this fantastical inner menagerie.