The Pepper Field

lithographic print, 2008

"The Pepper Field" addresses dreams and the unconscious all spun into one. The dreamer is neither awake nor asleep, and I believe this mystery is reflected in the piece. As the artist, the piece was inspired by mid-summer night dreams, in which, I am not always certain I am dreaming, and often feel projected into my own dreams. The woman fairy in the pepper is inside a dream. However, the pepper is sliced open to represent that she is not entirely in a dream world, but of both worlds of consciousness.

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2010, June 19- July 19: Melodic Imagery, O'Connor MacLeod Hanna LLP Office Building, Oakville, ON

Corresponding Poem: July

A dream so long ago

the storm battled from yonder its form

with your soul the earth is shattering

tastes of a song's notes hung in the sky

many miles above and yet drifting

near I

your words made me weep

as I clamoured to sleep

that still night dead in the month of July

In a burial gown I laid those secrets to rest

in the dust of their forlorn doom,

unrest, screeching their fury

of varied digest

as the voices played demons to the soul in my chest.

I scampered around and without a sound,

danced wayward in stride

abandoning these feelings in the field in their cry

hoping they'd cease as they very well die.