“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” Vincent Van Gogh.
In his book Dream Tending: Awakening to the healing power of Dreams, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat writes that dream images are like characters in a story. Dream images give meaning to our life’s story, just as characters in novels give meaning to the narrative.
“An artist is constantly looking into an object, stripping away what is superfluous, in order to see its innate beauty. Even a careful look at the surface of an object reveals that which is lit up from the inside” (Aizenstat, p. 263).
Susan Leopold Illustration 