The Beach
Dreamed before 1985 by Patricia Benefield
The beauty and mystery of a bird has long enchanted me, so it is understandable that they frequent my dreams. Sometimes I am a bird/woman, other times eggs, birth and nests are in evidence.
It is curious that the birds are appearing in my paintings in various characterizations--disguised as myself, as in "The Beach," a menacing being, a protector, or a refuge.
In later dream/paintings they have assumed a masculine role. Perhaps I wish to see men as beautiful and mysterious?
SOURCE: Dreamworks: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (v.4, no.4, 1985, p.243). Sorry the picture's grayscale; so far I've found no color images of Benefield's work.
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