Female,
artist, born 1974
I have a recurrent dream concerning the buildings directly
in front of my grandmother's terrace in Italy. To provide
some background to the dream: she lived near Naples and I
spent much of my childhood there. Her garden and terrace
were my main playground in childhood. Over the years, since
the 1970's, many buildings surrounding it have changed
around her house, but the main view includes the Vesuvius
clearly visible to the right, and the mountains called
Monti Lattari to the left, with different sized blocks of
flats in the near distance. In the far distance still to
the left, behind the clocks of flats, one can see the
castle of Lettere, which I never visited and which
populated my imaginary medieval world. In 1980 an
earthquake rocked the area, causing nearly 4000 dead and
tens of thousand of homeless people. I was there. When the
earthquake happened, the blocks of flats to the left
collapsed in front of me. They were in time replace with
different buildings, but the vision of the partly collapsed
blocks with flats' interiors still visible, stayed with me
a long time.
My recurrent dream involves me flying over the terrace and
seeing the buildings rebuild themselves over and over
again, while giant drawings appear on the side of the
buildings' walls. As i do this, I can feel the sun on my
skin and the air is warm. I see many gardens below, and a
sense of wellbeing.
This is my dream.