Dreamscape by Alec Fencer
I read a post recently from @chapterclosed with a drawing of a dream-face that they'd had. It was quite good and made me think about painting my own dreams.
My son, @mobbs, has at times written his down, and I have once or twice - but I sometimes wonder if I'd be locked up for insanity when I recall some I've had.
I'm getting more skilled at painting and drawing and think that someday I will paint something from my own psychotic/twisted/ surreal dreamscape that I visit on regular occasions.
Will I be skilled enough to paint the wartime ghost chasing me through windows that melt or the 1940's refugee girl who's waiting for a train, arms stretched inhumanly long towards me as she begs me to go with her? Or maybe I could paint the plane flying by the mountain, through the churning teeth of a combine harvester to rest/land on a plate of spaghetti?
Perhaps I could try painting the room that tips upside down and I fall out of the 'roof' into fields and run around looking for something but I don't know what?
How does one paint such bizarre scenes as these? Should one let these out into the open at all?
I envy those who can put dreams to paper, whether it be in words or in pictures as dreams are free of reality constraints and can are often the start of a good book being written, or a great film reaching the silver screen, but am I the only one whose dreams are so convoluted and weird that to bring about my dreams' tangibility is indeed a formidable task?
If only I dreamed of fairies and angels....