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Dreams

There were times in my forties and fifties when I loved my dreams so much that I went to sleep every night eagerly awaiting the next story.
 
There are three paintings here that came from one of my most delightful ones. I woke up suddenly to a deep, god-like voice saying slowly and solemnly: "One of us flies . . . and one of us lurches." I nearly fell out of bed laughing, because it seemed like a slogan for my life - sometimes flying, sometimes lurching.
 
Three Round Stones In A Box was purely visual, just what it looks like. An offering, a gift.
 
Pyramid Lake is a kind of waking dream for me, always, from the time I first saw it. It feels like my spiritual home, and it comes around again and again in my work. It is my solace.
 
The Red Ship was a long, convoluted, emotional dream which came out of my adolescent years in Marin County during World War II. I dreamed that I had the opportunity to stop Japan from going to war with us by rowing the red ship from Japan to America. I worked very hard all night in that dream, and I had to paint it to get rid of it.