I've always been a vivid dreamer, but when I was pregnant with Milo I began having the craziest dreams (an inordinate amount of which included Darren leaving me for a gay lover...?). During this time D's mom gave me a sketch book called 'Last night I dreamed...' filled with pages upon pages of good quality paper to record your dreams on. (Available at the fabulous store collage collage, for those interested.) I tried to get into this at the time but found that whenever I had free time I just sort of wanted to sit on my laurels, or read, or go for a ski, or stock the freezer.
I recently remembered this book, however, and pulled it out. So for the last six weeks or so I've started illustratively recording my dreams each morning. I do this during morning nap time over a cup of coffee. Some drawings I do in a day, some take a few, and most spill some into awake time. However, this spilling over works into my personal parenting philosophy of making Milo a witness to mine and his dad's creative work in the hopes that he will respect and honour this work in us and himself as he gets older, and hopefully be a part of it!
This has truly become such a rewarding and lovely little practice that I really look forward to each day. Here's a few of my favourites.
xo Kirsten
these are amazing!
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sean