Another work is done, finally. Not with too much effort, this time. I must say that I don't even intended to do it, but when I saw the stock photo from I immediately wanted to do something with it.

It's again a woman that is sleeping and it tries to catch a more oriental feeling, a feeling that dreams are almost magical.

I love the state of mind that we find ourselves in when we fall asleep, when every little thing that happened to us during the day or at a certain moment in our life gets another dimension, sometimes funny, sometimes grotesque or surreal.

We spend most than a third of our lives sleeping, so we can almost say that we live a second life when we leave this world and explore some new spaces and times.

One of Romania's biggest poets, Eminescu ( who was strongly influenced by Shakespeare) was saying in one of his poems:

When, at night, with drooping eyelids, I blow out the candles flare,
Time's unending path is followed only by the old clock there;
For just draw aside the curtains and the moon will flood the room
With a fire of passions summoned by the ardours of her gloom;
From the night of recollection she will resurrect an eon
Of distress - which we, however, sense as in a dreamlike paean.

Moon, arch-mistress of the ocean, you glide o'er the planet's sphere,
You give light to thoughts unthought -of and eclipse sorrow and fear;
Oh, how many derserts glimmer under your soft virgin light
And how many woods o'ershadow brooks and rivers burning bright!
Legion is the name of billows you dispose of as you please,
When you sail upon the ever restless solitude of seas;
Of resplendent climes, of gardens, palaces and castles old,
Which you impregnate with magic and to your own view unfold...

( M. Eminescu - First epistle)

This poet loved to tell fairy tales, but his own fairy tales were different from the ones told by the rest of the writers. He describes dreamy, almost hallucinatory images, with skulls that have burning, red eyes and the Moon that is present everywhere, paining the walls with her white light. I love more his prose that his poems, his short novels are genius.

His prose inspired massively another big Romanian writer, named M. Eliade, who Youth without Youth, a novel that was put on screen by Francis Ford Coppola in 2007.

So... anywayz, I hope you'll like my work

Hugs,

felina222.



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