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Jesus Heads
Dreamed by Jim Shaw, c.1994.
DREAM 1
There was this painted head of Jesus with statues of saints inserted into his face and beard. Then I saw another, tortured Jesus with suffering statues inserted.
DREAM 2
In the empty lot behind our old house were half-buried, giant coffee cups, about 45 of them.
SOURCE: Jim Shaw's Dreams, Jan. 1995, Smart Art Press. Dreamed 1987-95, probably 1994.
EDITOR'S NOTES
Yep, suffering's not my cup of tea...
No, really, why'd I post this example of Shaw's dreams?
- They're featured on the cover of his book. Rightly so. Big, bold, and representative of his dreams--and art.
- They're so nicely paired! Huge fake faces injected with drama, and then huge... mugs. Of the other kind. But more honestly empty.
Oh wait, some readers won't get the dream-pun. In early 20th Century America, 'mug' was slang for 'face'. Over a century ago--in Freud's time--Havelock Ellis theorized that dreams can mull over the multiple meanings of a word or phrase, yet never explicitly mention it in the dream. This pair of dreamlets are a perfect example. All night, monster mugs. It's not Shaw's only Ellisian dream: see Looking for Librium, culminating in a scene about tablets--simultaneously medicinal and Biblical!
--Chris Wayan
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