Dream Mood

A woman reclines on her back, cradling her head in her hands, gazing freely upward. She's somewhere between reality and fantasy, drifting through her own subconscious with a quiet confidence — moving among her desires and her fears without fear.

When we look up we meet the sky, that boundless blue that beckons with its vastness and stands for freedom. So I find myself asking, looking at her: is she liberated from what's expected of her? Has she let herself become fully who she is? Her serene gaze and faint smile suggest she has — a calm that is also a kind of strength.

Dreams have drawn artists for centuries, and the Surrealists made the unconscious their material: a window onto the secret inner self. She gazes at something outside the frame. Perhaps new horizons are opening in her.

An original drawing. Signed.

Jolanta