The oneiric earth is an exploration of the poetic otherworld as an oneiric dream space with which one merges and is transformed, as well as archetypal subconscious symbols and creatures who may reside there.
The ideas were developed during my research thesis ‘Joining with the oneiric earth: An exploration of the telluric stages of Michel Tournier’s Friday, or the Other Island‘. They have since developed visually through the medium of cross-stitch tapestry.
The Unsounding Song
The unsounding song is a feeling in the stomach, hence I have located it in the stomach of the image. On one hand it is a kind of nausea: the haunting pain of inexpression, of not finding the right words, of not being heard, of a narrative preemptively written. This feeling is communicated by the stark lettering against bright colour.
On the other hand the unsounding song is divine, being the fertile first echo or instinctual movement, felt deep within. It is the egg inside the womb, the glimmer of what is to come. Because it is the source of potential it is limitless, it references all possibilities.
The idea of the Unsounding Song is a two sided coin. In both its positive and negative expression, it always points to the unbearable lightness of potentiality, both of what could have been, and of what is to come.