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2010 - 2011 'The BEAST and other
Stories'
The drawings are
made on Arches 100% cotton watercolor paper,
56 x 76 cm each, with pencils, graphite, photo collage, acrylic
and watercolour.
Dream Story
Twenty seven drawings in pencil and
photo collage build a simple story. The main characters are two typical
Cypriot street cats who meet in a flat, under the same shelter.
The cats try to find ways to communicate and finally they
succeed it by creating a dialogue about their dreams.
Dreams brightened their life
leading them to a new reality. The story in words was written
after the completion of the drawings. In the presentation of the
work there might be an audio visual combination to project the
story.
The BEAST and other stories.
Hi, my name is Ludwig. I’m a street cat, lost my mum and I have
no home.
For days I protected myself between high walls. People living in
these high walls are seeking for happiness.
Soon I got very ill
and I found myself in the middle of the street.
Running wheels passing by, up and down the street:
‘ Mummy, mummy I won’t survive.’
Just a bit before
the end a sun ray warm me up.
Suddenly I felt a soft hand holding me tenderly. There was
Madonna of the Cats.
She brought me up in a flat, fed me and took care of me.
A few days passed and I felt much better.
One morning I met
Cleopatra, the flat’s house cat, in a meditative moment.
She was in the middle of a sun salutation. Concentrated with her
master seemed
wise but rather snob.
Cleopatra loves to
sleep many hours and dreams a lot.
Though she doesn’t like me much, from time to time she tells me
some of her dream stories:
‘Ludwig, please listen carefully… Stillness and breathing are
two basic things for good dreaming.’
‘Otherwise you will
have to work out your fears first and then be ready for
relaxation.’
‘Sweet dreams with
goldfishes,
accidental meetings
with dolphins
and trips to
Australia are my usual dreams.’
‘There are times of
nightmares appearing in my dreams. Usually when I eat a lot or I
am a bit disturbed.’
‘Big fishes conspiring to kill me…
and a weird Vet
trying to convince me take his poisonous goldfish pills.’
‘But Ludwig, be
careful, I will always keep telling you: STOP FEEDING THE BEAST.
It may eat us someday.’
‘And don’t let your
little fishy friends ever escape from you. They are really
precious.’
One afternoon,
while relaxing in her extra double bed,
Cleopatra had her first erotic dreams, but she didn’t tell
Ludwig.
At the beginning a beautiful greenish grasshopper whispered her
words of love…
Then she had her
first kiss with a gold brownish sexy fish…
And the final
surprise was the extended crab flirting lover!
‘So Ludwig, back to
our stories: Sometimes I travel through my dreams in
extraordinary glass spaces…
and surrealistic
worlds, where strangers meet in the same womb,
friends fall
together
and others look
high and above searching for something.’
‘Cleopatra, you
know, yesterday I had some similar experiences,’ said Ludwig:
‘I dreamt, I was looking from above down to earth and I saw many
people coming together and dancing in a circle. They were in an
ecstatic motion.’
‘A moment after, a
woman was relaxing in dog’s pose.
People learn quite a lot from animals, don’t you think so
Cleo?’
‘You are quite
right Ludwig. One thing I would love to learn from humans is
handstand. Seems so magical!’
‘Another thing that
excites my imagination is our huge potentials.
The other day my neighbor cat came from Italy and she
described to me how she survived from a strong earthquake.’
‘Hey, Lud, before
you sleep again listen to one more dream: that of the beautiful
bubble dance,
where Mother Earth danced on a bubble and a herd of goldfishes
went round and round and round…’
And little Ludwig
sank into his own dreams…
‘Now it’s my time’,
whispered wise Cleopatra, ‘Let’s eat THE BEAST!’
But finally she
didn’t and they all lived happy together.
THE END
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