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Peaches and Cherries

Dreamed 1977 and early 1980s? by Phyllis Davidson
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INTRODUCTION

Phyllis Davidson is a painter whose work looks half collage (iconic figures juxtaposed on a black ground) and half Old Master (Caravaggio and Mannerist painting to be exact). She's a sleepwalker, tending to act out her dreams. It shows.

I was unable to find a color version of her "Unquiet Meals", mentioned below; sorry. It's grotesque enough, even in black and white, seeing her about to get... forked.

--Chris Wayan

INTRODUCTION

...I was working on "Unquiet Meals" (1977). I was painting an enormous fruit salad. Unable to prop up a canned peach half in the desired position to use in the composition, I resorted to holding the peach in my left hand while painting it. That night I dreamt that I was that canned peach half, snuggled up to a huge mound of cottage cheese. The sensation was one of blissful comfort, although I was irritated by the fact that there was a speck of cottage cheese on me--in my middle--which I did not like.

Grayscale copy of 'Unquiet Meals' painted 1977 by Phyllis Davidson. Click to enlarge.
Now I have been told that people do not dream of being inanimate objects. One of my funniest dreams (not art-related) took place in Reno, Nevada. After spending all day and much of the night in gambling casinos, I dreamt I was a reel of cherries in a slot machine. Round and round I spun; I wanted desperately to get out. My husband, awakened by what ever it was I was shouting, found me at the motel window, hands pressed against the glass, trying,.of course, to escape my slot machine prison.

I might add that after this dream, I was not moved to paint slot machines, reels of cherries, or crazed women at motel windows.

--Phyllis Davidson

SOURCE: Dreamworks: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (v.4, no.1, 1984, article "It's My Own Invention", p.5-6)


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