Oval Dream Painting, 12" x 9", oil on panel, 1997-99. Artist's collection.

In the dream the "j"-shaped form was flatter--less modeled. The oval, the bluish color, and the segmentation of the background are all exactly as they were in the dream. It's interesting to me how the oval and the segmented background look like an elongated version of the circular, half-spherical form in Panel Cure. I like to think there is a fourth curved line behind the "j"-shaped form. This image arrived in my dream abruptly and with no accompanying scenario or narrative.