Dream Images

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 3, 2012 at 1:03am

Hi Kitty,

I recommend buying and reading THE BOOK OF DISQUIET (try to find the English Serpent’s Tail edition) because so much of this diary is on dreams and how they relate to real life, also on the difference between day and night dreaming.

You could have a point on the language angle. When are we impregmated by a foreign tongue? When do we know this? When you start having dreams in a foreign tongue! And the mistakes we make are not that important, that is for the teachers who in a bad sense are often the police of language (so repressive, not opening students at all).

In my case I am not Bilingual.

I have an active knowledge of 4 tongues: Dutch, French, English and German.

I have a passive knowledge of a few others (Portuguese and Spanish, Italian I consider 2 difficult to say about it I can manage reading it).

Interesting thing happens when you switch between languages: sometimes you DO NOT remember a word in your mother tongue BUT know the word in another tongue. I have stopped asking me questions about the why’s, it is as silly as trying to decipher dream images ...

About your idea that Baudhuin visited me: without ANY doubt.

A few months after his suicide I was working during an evening in the Fine Arts Center in Brussels for a concert and I saw the image of a huge wild boar on the walls of the concert hall, a day dream for sure or an evening dream but I was awake! I smiled, said okay guy, you are telling me I have to forgive you!

Comment by Kitty Rocket on July 2, 2012 at 6:52pm

The thing I like most about your work is your ability to express the importance of the dream in few words, moreover, I mean the actual profundity of it stamped into important words. My dream journals are filled with cumbersome details and almost muddling my point at times...It is also what I love about Joseph Cornell's dream logs....

"2 tiny ceramic animals came tumbling out as though the ages had hewn them out a shelter"

I read your blog Guido.

Clearly you have talent that lies within words and language. Maybe that is what happens when one is bilingual. Maybe I should learn a new language and broaden a bit.

Interesting about the boar story. Perhaps it was a visit from your friend.

Sadly I have no dream art to share today.....

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 2, 2012 at 2:56pm

Continue my reading of Pessoa’s THE BOOK OF DISQUIET.

Critical entry journal on dreams versus «real life» is:

FATE. I reject LIFE because it is a prison sentence.

I reject DREAMS as being a vulgar form of escape.

Yet, I have the most sordid and ordinary or real lives 

and the most intense and constant of dream lives.

I’m like a SLAVE who gets DRUNK during his REST hour-

2 MISERIES inhabiting one body.

Bernardo Soares aka Fernando Pessoa, 1932

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 2, 2012 at 2:48pm

READING YOUR DREAMS MADE ME RE-READ MINE, letter and photos from Margaret Founds to GV.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 2, 2012 at 2:45pm

Thank you Kitty! There is more to say about this painting. It is linked with my memory of Baudhuin Simon, a Belgian mail artist who introduced me to the concept of mail art and who had an obsession with pigs and wild boars. He lived in the Belgian Ardennes, in Habay La Neuve, small village that borders the forest of Anlier. He committed suicide by throwing himself under a train in the station of Habay. Some mail art friends stole some of his ashes to spread them around in the forest of Anlier, in the territory of the wild boars.

Comment by Kitty Rocket on July 2, 2012 at 3:23am

Now Guido, all of your images are spectacular, but this one?.......truly AWESOME! I love it! I have saved it to my desktop. The wild boar 'eh? You always have these very "natural world" dreams. You must be a very intuitive person. Thanks so much for sharing this part of you. I don't get to the internet very often but lucky when I do. All of these wonderful artists in one place!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 2, 2012 at 3:10am

The dream of the wild boar in the forest of Anlier, small painted envelope

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 29, 2012 at 11:59pm

2 page dream text on an Irish Bin Laden, see http://lamusar.blogspot.com

 with thanks to Cheryl P for supporting me to publish this. Sorry if I offend certain people. Am I responsible for my own dreams? Euh, yeahhh ....

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 29, 2012 at 11:55pm

Dreams by Cuan Miles, South Africa

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 29, 2012 at 3:25am

IN DREAMS WE ARE MUCH CLOSER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE IN REAL LIFE, small painted envelope.

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