2 / Dreams and Visions

• • The Ecstasy of St. TeresaGian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)	Garden of Earthly DelightsHieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516)	The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq from the Bustan of SacdiUnknown painter; Sultan Muhammad Nur (calligrapher) (Uzbekistani, active first half of 16th century)	The ScreamEdvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)	The False MirrorRené Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)	Le Pont-au-Change (The Exchange Bridge, Paris)Charles Méryon (French, 1821–1868)
    St. Francis of AssisiFrancisco de Zurbaràn (Spanish, 1598–1644)	The Four SleepersMokuan Reien (Japanese, d. 1345)	Revenge of the GoldfishSandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)	Women’s Dreamings of the Tanami Desert 2Margaret Anjullu (Anjule Bumblebee) (Aboriginal, n.d.)	“Sisilia Sii–Weaver”Flores Island, Indonesia	Utatane soshi emaki (A Wakeful Sleep)Tosa Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1434–1525)
    Dream, Caused by the Flight of a Bee (Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up)Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)	Angel of the RevelationWilliam Blake (English, 1757–1827)	The JungleWifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982)	The Broken ColumnFrida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954)	HeadrestShona artist, Zimbabwe	Lintel 25 of Yaxchilán Structure 23Maya artist, Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico

expert perspective

Roy W. Hamilton Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections, Fowler Museum at UCLA

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The weaver describes how dream inspiration has played a role in her creative process in making textiles. She talks about a dream where her mother appeared to her to teach her a final pattern that she hadn’t mastered up to that point. The issue is that even a young weaver learns a lot of different patterns, and she had learned all those patterns sitting beside her mother in her youth. But her mother died before she learned the most advanced patterns. And a woman is supposed to have senior standing in the community and be highly recognized and regarded for her skill before she would even attempt to do those patterns. Her mother had always told her in her youth that she couldn’t make those until she had this advanced standing. So years went by, and then finally, in her sleep, her mother came to her in a dream and told her that she had to make those patterns.

Now obviously, as an accomplished weaver, she could have made these patterns. But the issue really is she needed the permission from her mother.”