Last night i also researched Native Americans and there beliefs about dreams. They believe that hanging a dream catcher above our beds will stop you having nightmares by the dream catcher blowing in the air and catching dreams. The good dreams know there way and pass through and slide down the feathers, the nightmares don't know there way and get tangled in the web of the dream catcher. Traditional dream catchers should be no bigger than the side of an adult hand, and is traditionally made from willow and owl feathers.
How dream catchers accrued is from a old story told by Native Americans many generations ago of a woman who had a spider in her bedroom who had been spinner her web for days. The old woman's son came in the room saw the spider and was going to kill it. the old woman stopped him. The spider said to the old woman thank you for stopping him and in return i will give you a gift. The spider span its web across her window to let in the good drama and stop the nightmares and that was his Giffy that she would be able to sleep and only have good dreams. The tale is where the dream catcher came from. People now hang them above there beds and have small ones above there children's beds to they only have good dreams.
The link for this story in full is below.
www.allsands.com/religous/nativeamerican_zed_gn.htm
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Good to see you starting to use the blog format. Make sure you start to focus the text towards what the module is about. I.e. now start going round exhibitions and commenting on how work was hung or how well the artists communicate their ideas. One way of doing this of course is looking at other artists who have had exhibitions related to what you are interested in. Tom Cookson, one of last year's students was interested in these things, check out his last years blog. TCAudiences.
ReplyDeleteYep I will do Im going to see Alex Kelly's talk this week and off to wakefield art walk tomorrow and leeds art walk next week x
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