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Larry McCandlish “Lost Dreams” mixed media, object, digital collage in ink on matte paper, & acrylic on canvas, 21.5” W x 17.5” H x 3.75” SOLD

Larry McCandlish “Lost Dreams” mixed media, object, digital collage in ink on matte paper, & acrylic on canvas, 21.5” W x 17.5” H x 3.75” SOLD

   You may have wondered why we forget dreams. Some of us, it seems, always remember dreams. But others, realize shortly after waking-up, that although we know we had a dream, all details of the dream have vanished.
    What you probably don’t know is that the road, in-and-out of Dreamland, is like an arrow: straight and narrow and just as deadly (to dreams). The road is flanked on both sides by dense stands of deciduous trees, where bands of Dream Snatchers dressed in black suits, hide in wait of any unsuspecting Dreamers passing from night into day.
   Dreamers leaving Dreamland either alone or in small groups, being half-awake and half-asleep, are easy prey. The Dream Snatchers slip-slide, with exaggerated stride, from the trees on one side of the road, snatching as many Dreams as possible before sliding into the trees on the other side. The Lost Dreams are carried away in black brief cases, to be sold at high profit, on the black market in almost any town or city in the world, to anyone who can afford to pay.
   At the beck and call of Dream Meisters, a 7-headed Hydra guards the road. Old 7-Head, being of mythological origin, lives above the road in the seventh curled-up dimension of space, one of the higher dimensions well known from superstring theory. The Hydra attacks, uncurling and curling along a slip-plane, in-and-out of the sky above the road. If the Snatchers do not slide away first, he bites off the their heads before they can take one last long stride. The rescued Dreams are returned to the Dream Meisters for reuse on some future night, as the Meisters might see fit. If the Snatchers escape? Well, then someone loses a Dream.
  This work is dedicated to all Dreamers everywhere whose Dreams are threatened, especially those undocumented children who were brought to the United States by their illegal immigrant parents through no choice of their own, and then denied their human right to Dreams of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
 And lastly, let us not forget the Ukrainians whose Lost Dreams grow ever more numerous with each passing day and all others whose Dreams were destroyed in all wars, current or past. 

Skills

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March 6, 2023

Skills

Posted on

March 6, 2023