This is probably a nondream piece--at least Varo doesn't mention a dream associated with it. But then she never did.

I chose this example of her art because I dream so frequently of nonhuman beings, and I'm curious about others who do. As art, I think it shows her strengths and weaknesses. Strengths: the ancient look, the textures, the feeling of deep strangeness--not intellectual estrangement, as when Magritte the quintessential surrealist paints a train coming out of a fireplace--but the conviction that such a world exists, that such beings exist, that Varo met this being. But weaknesses too: her tiny head, her gangly joints, her subtly awkward pose, and her upturned eyes, when running through this forest at breakneck speed demands eyes forward, focused here and now.

This Personage ignores us, ignores this world, cares only for the sky.

In Viajes Inesperados by Janet Kaplan, she suggests Varo was commenting on Goya, who drew a lot of batwinged beings. Though Goya's lack fennec ears.

SOURCE: Viajes Inesperados: el arte y la vida de Remedios Varo by Janet Kaplan, 1998 ed., pp.202-7

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