“EVERYTHING DREAMS. IT IS THE GAMES OF FORM, OF BEING, OF MATTER DREAMING. THE ROCKS DREAM OF THEIR  OWN AND THE EARTH CHANGES...BUT WHEN THE MIND BECOMES CONSCIOUS, WHEN EVOLUTION GAINS  MOMENTUM, THAT'S WHEN YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL. YOU NEED TO BE ATTENTIVE TO THE WORLD. YOU HAVE TO  LEARN THE WAY PROCEDURE. YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE TRICKS OF THE JOB AND THE LIMITS OF ART. A CONSCIOUS  MIND SHOULD KNOWINGLY AND DILIGENTLY BE PART OF THE WHOLE. JUST AS THE ROCK UNCONSCIOUSLY BECOMES  PART OF A WHOLE.” URSULA LE GUIN, THE LATHE OF HEAVEN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DREAM (THE LATHE OF HEAVEN) BEGINS WITH THIS QUOTE FROM CHAUN TZU; “CONFUCIUS AND YOU ARE BOTH DREAMS, AND I WHO SAY YOU ARE DREAMS ARE MYSELF A DREAM. THIS IS A  PARADOX. PERHAPS A WISE MAN IN THE FUTURE CAN EXPLAIN IT; THAT FUTURE WILL NOT COME UNTIL THOUSANDS OF  GENERATIONS HAVE PASSED”. WHY DO PEOPLE SEEK HELP FROM DREAMS IN THEIR SHORT LIVES CHASING THE TRUTH?

 

WHY DO THEY FOLLOW THE  TRAIL OF LANDSCAPES, STORIES, IMAGES THAT MAKE THEM FEEL DREAMLIKE? IS IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE A DREAM, TO  MAKE THAT DREAM COME TRUE? ARE FAIRY TALES DREAMS CREATED BY HUMANS? THIS STORY, WHICH FOLLOWS  THESE QUESTIONS, IS THE IMAGE OF A FAIRY TALE CREATED LAYER BY LAYER. THIS SCENE, NAMED AFTER LE GUIN'S BOOK OF THE SAME NAME, FOCUSES ON A SURREAL MOMENT BETWEEN  DREAM AND REALITY. THIS IMAGE IS A MOMENT OF LIMBO BETWEEN LEAVING AND STAYING, AS IF STANDING IN  FRONT OF A GIANT PASSAGE. IT IS THE MOMENT WHEN ALICE DECIDES TO GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. PERHAPS IT IS  A STRANGE CHOICE OF REALITY, WHERE IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW REAL THE REALITY IS AND WHERE THE DREAM BEGINS  AND ENDS. THE DREAM CREATED IN THIS FICTIONAL LANDSCAPE AIMS TO ESTABLISH A CONNECTION BETWEEN  REALITY AND DREAM, TO CREATE A MOMENT OF EMPATHY. IT'S LIKE AN INTERTWINED MIX OF STORYTELLERS'  DREAMS. TURNING HER BACK ON THE HARD REALITY SURROUNDED BY ANGER, HATRED, BRUTALITY, VIOLENCE AND  BIGOTRY, AVOIDING FEELINGS SUCH AS BEING IGNORED, HUMILIATED, AND TRAUMATIZED, THE GIRL CHOOSES TO LIVE  IN THE DREAM SHE HAS CREATED. JUST LIKE ALICE, SHE SEARCHES FOR WAYS TO ESCAPE FROM A WORLD WHERE SHE  CAN'T EXIST, BY CHASING A RABBIT. SHE YEARNS FOR SUCH A PLACE AND DOES HER BEST TO MAKE IT EXIST.

 

AS FOR MUSHROOMS, A FEW WORDS SHOULD BE SAID ABOUT THEM. THEY ARE THE BEGINNING AND THE END.  THEY WORK SECRETLY TO MAINTAIN THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF THE WORLD. THESE MYSTERIOUS CREATURES, WITH  MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION SPECIES, TRANSFORM DEATH AND DECAY INTO THE ETERNITY OF THE LIFE CYCLE. THEY ARE  MYSTERIOUS TRANSFORMATIVES WHO GIFT DEATH TO LIFE AGAIN. IN THESE ASPECTS, THEY REPRESENT THE  REINCARNATED WORLD AND THEY ARE SIMILAR TO ARTISTS IN THESE ASPECTS. THIS DREAM IS A THANK YOU TO THE STORYTELLERS. HE FOLLOWS THE BREADCRUMBS LEFT BY THEM. IT IS INSPIRED  BY DREAMS FROM ANDERSEN AND GRIMM FAIRY TALES TO LA FONTENE, CARROLL'S ALICE, BEATRIX POTTER'S PETER  THE RABBIT, MIYAZAKI'S VAST IMAGINATION, DOROTHY OF THE WIZARD OF OZ, AND NAIL GAIMAN'S SANDMAN.  I DEDICATE THIS DREAM TO MY GRANDMOTHER HAYAT AND MY GRANDMOTHER BIRSEN, MY FIRST STORYTELLERS, TO  TWO WOMEN WHO DID NOT LIVE THEIR CHILDHOOD.