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...

 

[Nuno + Nela]

astonishing work!

[De Villo Sloan]

One more on 90s nostalgia: The fact that "Twin Peaks" was a popular TV is some kind avant garde miracle.

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Jen, you have great taste with Reznor and Lynch, IMHO.

[Marie Wintzer]

No way!!!! :-))))) send it!!!

[cheryl penn]

o - I meant to say - I found 3 - its a woman on a beach with a nagaapie head, accompanied by a mechanical duck while two floating hands try to be Dr Frankenstein... 

[cheryl penn]

Hello - nope - have not seen haunted house on the hill - CANT do those sorts of movies - they FEED InSomNia - it goes back to what I always say - the work SAYS what it wants to be - this is proof! Haunting proof :-) X 

[Jen Staggs]

That's true, Reznor produced the soundtrack to the Lynch flick Lost Highway.  I was a devotee in high school, to lynch and NIN.  Two great geniuses. But if you're gonna do the House on Haunted Hill, you've got to go the Vincent Price route with skeletons on strings!

[De Villo Sloan]

Trent Reznor - yet another genius from Cleveland

[De Villo Sloan]

yes, let's see what cheryl has to say about house on haunted hill. the nin might have actually been a collab w/ david lynch. forgot how interesting nin is.

[Marie Wintzer]

OK I'll leave the 9 Inch Nails video alone. And let's see what Cheryl says....