Oneiric (Sindhu I)
Alkyd oil on bedsheet, 2003
72" x 38"
$650
Oneiric (oh-NIE-rik): from the Greek oneiros, meaning "dream"
Carl Jung believed that while we dream, our minds tap into the "collective unconscious:" memories shared between people throughout history. He recorded descriptions of images and symbols in people's dreams that they had never seen before, yet were prevalent in ancient cultures; little Swiss girls in 1921 describe Babylonian bas-relief iconography. Other symbols, Jung discovered, are common to many civilizations that are separated by oceans and time, such as labyrinths, crosses, and swastikas (which can be found woven into Native American Indian baskets as well as drawn in Romanian illuminated manusripts). In Oneiric I illustrate the collective unconscious theory by juxtaposing the ancient Lascaux cave drawings with the sheep blanket. This particular scene from Lascaux depicts a hunter dreaming of a successful hunt; his spear symbolically wounding a bison. Even though its meaning has changed, "counting sheep" is a bedtime habit we share with people who lived 10,000 years ago.
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