Imagination crosses the line. It sneaks into another realm and takes a good look around before coming back to reality. Our imaginations will wander to places we've never known. How is it that we can visualize something we've never even seen? Of course I've seen many'a cloudy skies but never this one-never these colors and shapes. This wasn't created from a photograph; I had to reach into another realm to find this material.
For a minute here, let's consider us artists as “dream catchers”; voyagers venturing into the wonder, grasping obscure ideas and bringing back our catch. We are the fishermen of fantasy transferring our caught dreams from imagination to reality, bringing the unknown into the known, letting the unseen be seen; the merely imagined becomes an actual experience. Artists are the curious souls looking to wander into the other realm willingly bringing back their catch for all the empty bellies. But maybe you don't have to be an "artist" to go fishing for wildly imaginative ideas. Or maybe it's that, in some way, we are all artists, we're all "dream catchers"... And it's just that we're not all pulling in our catch- we're not all driving it home.
Fear despises creativity, so it does what it can to make us afraid to venture out. If we dare to do it anyway, we are often still nervous about bringing it home to deliver something that our world has never seen-when the truth is- these caught dreams are what the world is waiting for! This picture of Fifi in my studio today is what jogged my imagination to the other side sending me straight to the words "dream catcher". I came back to reality to write about my findings; what it means to be a "dream catcher".
This little girl is a dreamer, an artist by nature. Her mind wanders to that wonderful place- like most children's minds do. Which reminds me that we all started life with wanderlust. It's this world's limitation that ties down our imagination over time... keeping us anchored to what we see and know concretely.
Wander into the unknown. Dream wildly. Collect your findings, and bring it home. We're all waiting to see what you've found. We're hungry for a fresh catch.
sho, september 19,2022