
In most of my drawing classes we do a Surrealist exercise, we look at works by: Salvador Dali, Remedios Varo, and Yves Tanguy. I usually recommend that students try to illustrate a song, a dream, or a collection of both in a drawing. This was my example from last semester, I had some dream about a beautiful garden in my backyard and eventually the garden was taking over the house. When I was at Prescott a couple weeks ago I attended a presentation on "Dream Tending" by a magical lady named JoHanna McNamee. She helps people understand their dreams and looks closer at peoples life paths as well. It was very interesting to me and my mom. I wonder what she would have thought of my intrusive garden dream.