John Labovitz has been photographing around the Northwest and across the world for the last decade. Along the way, strange images have crept into his negatives. Unexpected and mysterious, perhaps they are flashes illuminating moments in a tall tale, a secret syntax apparent only in dreams.
Patti Battin found inspiration in the crumbling frescos tucked away in the small chapels of Florence, Italy. Her charcoal drawings, embedded into plaster, play between the seen and unseen, the surface and the submerged, the dreamer and the dream.
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses:
…The father Somnus chose from among his sons, his thronging thousand sons, one who in skill excelled to imitate the human form; Morpheus his name…
from opioids.com:
Morpheus is the Greek god of dreams. He is the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep. Morpheus has two brothers, Icelus and Phantasus. In Greek mythology, dreams were sent out to man passing through one of two gates: a gate of horn from which true dreams came; and a gate of ivory, from which passed dreams that were false. Icelus gave man dreams of birds or beasts. Phantasus gave man dreams of inanimate objects. Morpheus had the capacity to assume the form of any and every human being. His father Hypnos sent him out into the night to appear as a loved one in mortal dreams.