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Dreamer     Lucia Bonetto-Gandrud

The Strangest Wedding

He was as big as me but I was the size of a turtle.

Lucy: I was marrying a turtle named Fred who looked like the Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland. He was as big as me but I was the size of a turtle.

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The guests at the wedding were an emu, a polar bear, a penguin, a flamingo, an armadillo and a warthog.

Me: Where were you?

Lucy: We were in a forest clearing with a pond behind us. No, it was more like a  city on an island in the middle of a lake.

I had an awkward feeling.

The polar bear, who was kind of dirty, was looking at his iPhone6 (I know what they look like because my papa just got one) wearing those things you put in your ears…

Me: Earphones?

Lucy: Yes. He was listening to a rock and roll song while looking at pictures of people dancing in bubbles on the phone screen. The dancing people looked like they were in the card game ‘Set.’ I play it a lot with my mama and papa.

(Pause)

He looked like he was from outer space…like an alien.

Me: What do you mean?

Lucy: That’s what it felt like to me…I don’t know why.

I woke up when the polar bear drooped his head because he was bored and went to sleep.

Afterwards, I felt awkward, embarrassed and amused.

Me: Will you draw me a picture?

(She did but I have lost the drawing. It was in grey ink and had a wheel-like quality, with the ipod and the dancing people in bubbles and the game set all in different spokes of the wheel. I wish I could find it.)

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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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