XIE MENG
38K, 600 x 600, 2002. Digital picture by Chris Wayan
My spirit wife Silky in cat form, come to remind of something I've been neglecting this last year, as I finish the World Dream Bank (and sink into American workaholism). Capitalizing on my existing dreams, I've been neglecting to write the new ones. It's felt so satisfying to achieve some closure about dreams from years back that nagged me to paint them... but this project, like ANY big art project, robs the present to enshrine the past.
Silky is the present. The nicest present anyone could ever want.
The Chinese characters she's written on the air say "Xie meng" (pronounced halfway between "she-eh" and "see-eh", then "mung"). They mean, "write dreams." Present dreams, not just the past.
That's our dream-journal, of course, on the hill beside her. Waiting.
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