Caitlin's Book / Petr's Entry

The world of dreams has always been an inspiration and a mystery to me. I love the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman and the work he's done with Dave McKean.

Caitlin's book came as an invitation to open doors - and so I decided to open doors to the world of dreams.

Coincidentally my friend Ruth excitedly shared with me last week that Tapir represents a dream-eater and/or dream guardian in certain Chinese myths. See her email with couple links:

This is the dream eating tapir reference
http://www.squidoo.com/tapir

BUT...even more interesting, in the Japanese version they eat nightmares. They are both mythological and zoological....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_%28spirit%29
http://www.do-mana.nl/www.do-mana.nl/tapir.html

Hmmmm...even more interesting... 

http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/baku.html

While I very much love collage (in the Dada context) I never used it much in my own work -so this has also been a door opener to broaden my expression. The piece features photograph, pen drawing, watercolour, cut outs from a 30s book on medicine and human body along with some Photoshop.