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Dream      19,552,016

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Dreamer     Steven Corsano

Declan

i must get to the white house

i believe that i’ve overheard

a conversation about blowing up

a branch of a building.

i must get to the white house

and talk to someone.

a friend begins to doubt

my story and i begin to doubt

myself.

belief in my experience

is stronger and i manage to

get to the white house.

i ask to see the president.

i’m ushered in and speak with the

FBI or the CIA.

i tell them what i’ve heard.

they appreciate my sincerity.

i leave the white house

and we’re walking in a town

that is becoming more and more

recognizable.

my friend continues his badgering

and i feel condescended and patronized.

overhearing the conversation

was somehow connected to a red

school house, the particular time

of 5:30 pm, and something i have

not remembered yet.

i’m certain that i heard what i heard.

suddenly there appears a red school house

and i’m reassured.  i know this place.

it’s 5:30 and i hear an explosion.

just as i expected.

suddenly a few school boys run by

and they call out to their friend, declan.

DECLAN!

i’m overwhelmed and overjoyed.

i know this boy.

is your name declan?

yes, he says.

do you know the swan?

he says no.

i don’t know why i’ve asked him

this particular question but i’ve

been observing the swan for

quite some time now.

seeing declan is joyous.

seeing him and remembering

him is restorative.

i’m awash in love.

pure love.

hearing the name, DECLAN,

and seeing the boy feels

sublimely transformative.

i awake and look up the name,

DECLAN.

DECLAN: man of prayer or

full of goodness…

 

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Dream of the Drawing for Everything alchemies dream-like things: images and texts and films and sketches and philosophy and half-thoughts and visions and moments and fragments of all kinds. Resting and exploring here may deepen your relationship with the oneiric and, therefore, all apparent reality. Resting and exploring here may augment your psyche’s healing tendency—as Jung called it—through highlighting and delighting in humanity’s hallucinatory creations. (Without them, after all, neurologists assure us we would go starkers.) It is time there was a potentially infinite, intimate museum to what cannot be seen. Welcome to the museum.

Dream of the Drawing for Everything is some of the collaboration between artist Nuala Clarke & writer Crystal Gandrud. Our work arises out of what dances on the edges of perception and our collective attention gravitates to the dream-like nature of human experience. We have been in collaboration since 2010. Our merged practices of visual and textual art unfold on a continuum, as part of an interconnected series evolving over time. Both performed “Fair Shouldered One” (a book which is not a book) at the &Now Literary Festival in Paris, 2012 and installed “Between Spaces”, a Yeats inspired dreamscape at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, 2013. Most recently participated in the Find Arts Project in Castlebar, Ireland. Our public art installation of words and images printed on linen, “Woven Found”, hung on Castle Street. The project won the best commissioning practice award from Allianz Business to Arts, 2014.

Nuala Clarke

Nuala Clarke, visual artist, lives and works between Co. Mayo and New York City. Educated at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, she moved to New York City in 1993. In September 2007, she received a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo and began returning to Ireland from NY to work every year. Clarke has been represented by Boltax Gallery, NY since 2005. Recent shows include, Amid a Space Between: Irish Artists in America at the SFMoMa Artists Gallery, San Francisco, (2012); to Tremble into Stillness, a WB Yeats related show at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; RHA invited artist; and A drawing for Everything, Ballinglen Arts Foundation (2013). BLINK, a public art installation at the Westport Arts Festival, Co. Mayo (2014). Upcoming shows (2015): Impressions of Yeats, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; Of this place, Sligo and Madrid.

nualaclarke@gmail.com

Crystal Gandrud

Crystal Gandrud, writer, lives in New York City and Normandy, France. She holds an MFA, Creative Writing and a BFA, Classical Theatre. Recent publications include “Yeatsian: Numberless Dreamers,” The Encyclopedia Project, 2014, “Here,” Lost Magazine, and “Idiom: Woodbird Flies Early,” The Encyclopedia Project. Her dissertation, “Murdoch: the Mandala Maker,” was presented at Kingston University’s Iris Murdoch Conference (2006), London. At the most recent Murdoch Conference, she performed a multi-media excerpt from a work-in-progress entitled “The Forgotten Man,” inspired by Murdoch’s philosophical writings. She is under contract for a memoire entitled “Astonishment: A Litany of the Uncanny.”

gandrud@actuallyorange.com

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