porteur de rêves/dream listener : le livre, the book
October 18, 2011
prix – price : $30. +
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dream listener
dream listener goes to the street
she stands on the sidewalk
holds words in front of her
words written on found cardboard
words that recount her dream
others look at the words, read the words, approach her, talk to her
she asks,
did you dream last night?
tell me your dream.
she listens.
when she leaves the street
she leaves the cardboard with the dream behind.
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introduction by Patrice Loubier
108 pages, colour, full text in French and English, 8.5 X 11 in.
ISBN: 978-2-923612-16-4
2011 – editor : sagamie edition d’art
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excerpt from book: “in my dream my x-husband tenderly takes my hand into his and tells me he loves me still and will love me always. i want to tell him i love him too, but i can’t because for him these words mean something different.”
stood a bit back in one of the doorways of the old empress theater. a woman with a cane trudged through the snow to come and talk to me. she asked me what i was doing, i told her it was a dream. she asked me why i was doing that, i told her i didn’t really know, (this felt so true at that moment.) she told me she had a dream last night where she was teaching her ex-boyfriend to dance. she said she has not seen her boyfriend for over twenty years and in fact, he has been dead for the past four, but she still dreams of him every night. she went on to tell me that when she was with him the relationship was not really that good, but in her dreams they go everywhere and do all kinds of things together.
p.22 – text and image by karen elaine spencer
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262 fairmont ave, west, montréal, québec
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