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A Dream of Two Dogs
Ann had lost a sculpture she had made of two dogs giving birth to one another and I was helping her look for it at some carnival setting. I found the sculpture on the ground in some dust and two women saw me picking to 2 dogs up. They told me I should give the sculpture to them, but I told them it belonged to the woman who made it and I was giving it to her. I kept the two dogs and walked away from the women who wanted them to find Ann and then I woke up. I thought the two dogs giving birth to each other seemed paradoxical, but after giving it some thought it seemed simple. Perhaps two dogs giving birth to each other is a sort of cosmic representation of the two animal worlds of humans and wolves. In a spiritual sense humans and wolves are linked to one another because we have cared for each others young. There are many cases where humans have been kept alive by wolves and of course all dogs came from wolves. I think the two dogs giving birth to one another sculpture is a representation of how the two animals of humans and wolves are connected together.
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I think that's a neat symbol you created there. It could just represent paradox; a chicken and an egg type analogy. Obviously, for a dog to give birth to another dog, it would have to be born first. Seems like it has some cosmological meaning, birth of the universe or something. Alas, I do not sculpt.
Posted by Ann @ 10:10:2005:06:13 PM CST
I would like to see that. I wonder how one would go about creating something like that? I could be drawn or painted or just about anything. That is really cool. i like your wolf analogy.
Posted by Dawn @ 10:10:2005:09:38 PM CST
I've tried to imagine making images of Two Dogs Giving Birth to Each Other, but in the end the way the sculpture appeared in the dream still seems the best. The sculpture in the dream was soft and each dog was inside of its embryonic sack with both of them connected together in one place like a common umbilical cord. It seems like there are many possibilities to make this kind of image, but in most cases some of each dog might be still inside of the other dog as they give birth to each other. I've tried imagining this image many different ways and is almost seems implicit that any configuration would implicitly need a 3rd element to connect the two dogs together. Introducing a third element to the 2 dogs could work, but then the sculpture would become - Two Dogs Giving Birth to One Another & Something else too... The two dogs - each in their own embryonic sack - with a place of common connection (that is also out of sight inside of the bags) appears to be a great solution that avoids needing a 3rd visual element to connect the dogs together. The dogs can't be seen - it's hard to tell what the sculpture is about - until the object is picked up and then the shapes of the dogs can be felt inside of the bags. I haven't been able to think of a better solution to the visual problem than the way the sculpture appeared in this dream. I believe art comes more from than dreams than waking life anyway, so I'm not surprised that I like the dream solution more than anything else I've imagined after the dream.
Posted by Stan @ 10:11:2005:05:39 PM CST
It just sounds so very cool no matter which way it could be made!
Posted by Dawn @ 10:13:2005:09:22 AM CST
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