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]

The Spell Chick won't make coffee any more. I meant to say I'll file it in my dream archive.

[De Villo Sloan]

Ok, well then I'll just find it my dream archive.

 

Looking at it again, the castle/fortress shots are really amazing - the sequencing of empty doors and windows that mirror the flow of text and images in the book - works very well

[cheryl penn]

Hey Marie - thank you for this great blog :-) - ALOT of time and effort! So strange that number three never happened... I was convinced it did. Maybe it was just a dream. Dvs - I'm not too sure :-) - thats the trouble with fading from here to the dream world, everything is uncertain.  There is another on the go - maybe its actually the missing  three - when its written, it will say. XXX

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Great pictures of pictures, Marie. I like Cheryl's choice especially of the ruined brick building with arches - somehow it works for me as tying into a larger structure that holds the whole piece together. How many of these dream chapters/books are there? I have one, but it's not this.