Tabitha Vevers is an artist. She has a number of series of paintings, and this one where she depicts dreams that she has collected from people. She painted them over a period of 4 years. The ways she depicts the dreams is rather literal.  That is she presents the dream world experienced by the dreamers as a real world with empirical validity and narrative coherence.  In her words: “I have tried to depict the scenes as actual events in keeping with the spirit of the dreams rather than trying to interpret them or fabricate a dream-like pastiche.”

This, it seems to me, is an important component of her “vision,” that is, of her assumptions about the nature of the world. It assumes that the world of  subjective feeling is as coherent and as real as the world of shared objectivity that we call being awake. It does not assume that the two worlds are the same but that that we live in both simultaneously. Vevers work doesn’t seem to suggest that she has a problem with that. I really like that about her work. In a way these paintings are like Tarot cards; they suggest a direct correspondence between the phenomenal and shared worlds that can be read and understood as a kind of narrative.

Anyway, these are my favourite three: