Dream-inspired sculpture

About a year ago, I wrote about my friend being ill with cancer and finally her death. I can't find the blog anymore so I have decided to blog here.

The night before I visited her in the hospital, I had a dream of a bunch of people and I were standing in a river; the water was about chest-high. We were holding a body that face-down and then we let it go. I watched the body float down the river, and then around the bend. I knew that I had a dream like this one before and didn't want to continue it and pulled myself out of the dream. I was stumped about the meaning of the dream, yet it would reveal itself later.

Later that day, I went to visit my friend and we talked about death, where we go when we died, family, love, etc. She felt the responsibility to prepare her friends for her death, which I was priviledged to be a part of. As we talked, the memory of the dream flashed and I realized that the dream was a preparation for my visit and our talk, and ultimately, her death. As I drove home, I "saw" a completed mosaic sculpture, which I knew was an expression of that dream and my friend's death.

I have been very slowly working on this sculpture over the last 8 months. I have the base poured and the basic structure sculpted; now it's time to start mosaicing it. I have finally decided that the colors will be a combination of many shades of blues, blacks, purples, with some turquoise (to suggest reflection of light), to express the feeling in the dream as well as the imagery.

I hope to figure out how to post a picture of the structure here, and share the process of creating the mosaic. I will also post other pictures of mosaic art and other forms of art that I experiment with here.