The Dream: I am on a bridge talking with someone about an
artist friend’s painting. We are holding one of her paintings, and the other
person says, “A child could do this.”
I say, “You think that. Do you have any idea how hard it is
to paint like a child?” I also point out
that in any case my friend brings a lot of design sense and sophistication to
her “childlike” paintings.
Interpretation: This is a dream grounded, as most are, in
what I’d been doing the day before. I had been playing with Photoshop’s Mixer
Brush, getting painterly effects in my mindless digital “paintings” that I
liked too much to delete. One part of me judged these rather harshly; another
didn’t want her playtime denigrated. That we’re having this discussion on a
bridge implies that I am straddling two states of being: the proper adult and
the playful child.
