Dream Series 2-4-5 from Cheryl Penn [from the House to the Castle]

[Marie Wintzer]

 

Do you remember the House on the Hill? The place where Cheryl's Dreams are taking place [Dream Series- The Beginning]? We had a peep through the curtains a few weeks ago, and saw a mysterious Shadow. Walking up the Hill again today [Dream Series 2], we know, something is definitely happening in that House. And the funny thing is, we don't even need to be there to see it, we can best sense it when we close our eyes and try to sleep.

 

 

It's a crowded place. And quite frankly, I won't keep my eyes closed for too long, because the Creatures in there don't look like angels. Maybe I was a bit hasty (in my previous blog) in saying that we had left winter nightmares for a more peaceful and warm spring season dreamland.

 

 

So Dream Series 2 leaves us in frightening company. Dream Series 1 is floating in outerspace somewhere between South Africa and Japan and might never land in my mailbox. Dream Series 3 exists only in Cheryl's mind and has not been put down on paper (although she thinks she did). Dream Series 4 and 5 are a twist in the story and are bringing some new non-linear evidence to the plot.

 

 

There was Mail that morning. He had been waiting for it. Handwritten Messages on the back of a couple of photos. It was between Him and Her now, and we know He was not the type of person to give up that easily. Not after all this road, and the feeling of being so close to Knowing. The Messages were clear, the Castle Ruins had to be his next Destination.

 

 

This is where the boundaries between Dream and Reality are once again Blurred by the Storyteller. Images are so vidid they can only be real. Crisp and sharp and saturated, this cannot possibly be a Dream! And yet, too little is known about Her, about the House and the Castle. Who IS after Her? Those Creatures we just met? The Timeline is too vague, almost nonexistent, just like a Dream after all.

 

 

The Castle is another example of how Cheryl brilliantly integrates elements of real life in her art, fashioning up a story like clay in her hands. The books still smell like they have been freshly painted, a bit like a piece of evidence. There is life in them, there are walls and windows and grass, and Strange Creatures. And they all exist, I do not doubt it for one second [in my Dreams].
Dream Series 4 and 5 leave us with another cliffhanger and an open window though which the sun is shining, which leads me to believe (hope) that there will be more! I can't wait...

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks. I found it too. The movie is puke-po but has these amazing gross laboratory/ patient confinement sequences that outdo David Lynch at his best. It didn't get as much attention as it should have, I think. Now I'll obsess over the 9 Inch Nails video (please don't chase it - that will be hard to find). 

[De Villo Sloan]

OK, I'm talking about the movie "The House on Haunted Hill" (1999) a remake of the original from 1959.

 

The movie is set in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Now I'm wondering if Cheryl did do it on purpose. The effects are very surrealist and I'm sure were picked up somewhere in avant-heavy metal. Pretty sure 9 Inch nails.

 

Need Cheryl to comment.

[Marie Wintzer]

I'm a super-fast googling machine

[De Villo Sloan]

I didn't bother to Google but will later. I think there was a movie, "House on the Hill," something with hill in the title, maybe '90s, that had breakthrough special effects for horror - those were picked up in music videos - I'm thinking 9 Inch Nails (remember them?). I doubt Cheryl did it on purpose. Wonder if I have it vaguely right. Will check.

[Marie Wintzer]

Ok, that confirms what I suspected. It's not her handwriting at all.

[De Villo Sloan]

I noticed the handwriting. I didn't think it was hers. Spooky.

[Marie Wintzer]

Did you notice that the message on the back of the card is actually readable? Where is Cheryl's asemic handwriting gone?

[Marie Wintzer]

Good morning my genki people. Dropping in while the spell chick is making coffee in the kitchen (keeping an eye on her). How nice it is to post a blog, go to sleep, and wake up next morning to such wonderful comments. I'm chuffed. Thank you for keeping the fort so well.

 

[DKeys]

DVS, unmute your microphone and tune in to the dramatic voices light stream. organ music and cow bells in the background

[De Villo Sloan]

That's beautiful, Kat. Haven't read Browning in a long time. That one holds up. Very moving.