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The Uneventful Dream was my first foray into oil painting and was technically pursued as an evaluation of the medium's character and temperament, while searching for a compliment, in application, to techniques already developed with the pencil.

Interestingly, I certainly found that familiarity and comfort here, which forever altered the course of my work. But... I still also refer to this moment as "uneventful", in concept; because this painting's imagery developed on its own, without intention or any attempt at constructing a narrative.

Instead, like a dream in which you suddenly arrive (as an observer, primarily) I too merely arrived at this moment, unaware of what was being witnessed, though enchanted by its obscure and evocative mystery.

Objectively then, this surrealistic dreamscape was produced as a meditation, purely focused on the processes of mixing color, applying paint and blending patchwork imagery into a seamless composition.

Although, psychologically, The Uneventful Dream also became the bridge between a dormant dream-state and awakened dreaming, where metacognition was awakened and has since been animated.