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the theme was dreams - this was the first nightmare i can remember having.


etching and aquatinting

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:iconnatohamae:
It reminds me of swan lake (kind of literal thinking on my part. D'oh!)

How was this a nightmare? Was it the feeling behind it? Sometimes I find I get nightmares like thta too. Where it looks serene but it feel really sinister.
:iconladysiubhan:
in the nightmare my mom and a few of her friends and i were being led through a sparse hedge maze, and every time i turned around one of the people i'd had with me went missing.

finally when i made my way out, i was alone, and i came to a still black lake with white swans floating on it, and a bridge across.

I saw my mom and dad on the bridge, and they told me her friends were dead, and laughed about it, and i knew that they weren't really my parents, my parents were gone too.
then i woke up!


i must have been no more than 5 or 6 when i dreamed that!
:iconladysiubhan:
i'm glad you get a serene feel from it, as well, though. because in the dream, "they" (whoever "they" were) were trying to give the appearance of good, of beauty, of calm. they were trying to disguise the "evil"... though weren't succeeding well!
but i was aware that the swans were the one and only GOOD presence in the dream, and they, like me, had been placed into the evil world.
:iconnatohamae:
(Note: I'm replying to both comments on this ;P)

That's a really interesting dream! I can imagine how scary that must've been, especially for a 5-6 year old. I know I would've been terrified. I hate superficial things.

Sounds like it was a really visual dream too (well, hence the printmaking inspiration haha).
:iconwings-on-water:
Wow, that's really fascinating! I love the reflections in the water and the dangling pearls.
:iconladysiubhan:
yeh! my fave part is the reflection, i think that turned out really well... interestingly, while i meant the hanging things to LOOK like pearls, but the idea that it originally came from was hanging glow worm strings.. i saw a documentary about them, and it was a cave full of what looked like hanging, glowing strings of pearls! so the image stuck with me.
:iconjetjames:
Wow! A dream about swans jee! I thought they would be placid! I had a bad dream about going through a newspaper press, as though I was paper or something... freaky! The things we think of as kids lol :)

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Jet Blurton
:iconladysiubhan:
haha, that would be scary.

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