Shamanic self-portrait with dream creature
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Newly made digital painting. I guess the title should explain what you see. It is hot here and I have to use reading glasses, which is new to me... so I forgot. I'll better go for a little shamanic walk.
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Dreams are strange things. Mine seem to just be twists on normal life rather than fantasy, but then I struggle to remember them. I can imagine they can provide inspiration. Do we even really understand what dreams are?
I don't think science have any idea what a dream are, at least not if it has some sort of function - just that it exists, and only in the REM-sleep. I like dreams like I like human imagination (of which it is no doubt part), but I never really got to asking myself why it happens.
I really liked this work, it's very good, congratulations.
Thanks :)
I can see the man's penis
Yes, I never think much about it on this platform as people seem to take it easy. But maybe it should have been nsfw.
I assume the claw footed and virile creature is you, even though it is not wearing glasses. I'm struck by how his hair is on end, as if he just jumped into a pool of water and you got the very moment he landed on the bottom, ready to spring back up. For air? Does he breathe? Perhaps he ate something he is allergic to? (How do I know it's a he you ask?) The dream creature, vaguely female. I love all the shapes swirling around it/her. I think you've told us that your dreams have a lot of geometric shapes in them. I had a dream about Donald Trump and RFK Jr last night, they were at my house, but I couldn't get my clothing on quickly enough to go outside to meet with them.
When I made the title I was more thinking about it as a shaman selfie :) But maybe some of it is me. It started out with only the top part, the feminine dream creature growing out of the black head, I liked that the textures I was making by working in many layers looked a bit like Chagall. But then I expanded it because the composition was weak, and the muscular shaman came about. I thought of the upper part as fluid. the dream creature stick her hand into something, so maybe that is why the hairs on his back is rising?
Yes yes upward fluidity on him, with his dick earth bound, lateral fluidity on her. I see her tossing him a sphere, one of the many around her. He already has a couple, on his head. They glow more brightly on him, perhaps come into form when he gets them. Is that a third entity behind her, shadowy?
I love this. Dreams brought into form, shamanic.
There was other figures, not really defined, in the background, so there's possibly shades that can be seen through the transparent layers. Painting in light will never be the same as real painting, but I tried to mimic it a bit.