Day 27’s assignment was: “Dreamland. Use a recent dream as inspiration for what you do today.”
The night before, I went to bed wondering what crazy dreams I was going to have this night. The past few weeks I’d been having ridiculously vivid dreams and thus assumed that this night would be no different.
I was wrong. I woke up in the morning and couldn’t remember having a single dream. :/
So for today I decided that I would paint a recurring nightmare I’ve been having lately where I am trapped forever in the hell that is retail work. To me, there is nothing worse that dreaming about work because generally when I dream about work I sleep very fitfully and wake up more tired than I was before I went to bed.
In this recurring nightmare I am trapped at working at Macy’s for the rest of my life in endless servitude to all the ungrateful customers. I never able to leave the store and the pile of clothes that the customers try on and throw on the floor always grows larger and larger and larger.
For this I used acrylic paint on a canvas and also an image of Macy’s that I got from online.
I was tempted to throw it in the fire and let it burn, but decided it probably wouldn't be that good for the enviroment
Actually since I made this painting I haven’t had a nightmare about Macy’s…