All The Rage: Goya
‘Dreams’ is the theme of the July 2008 issue (PDF) of All The Rage, the world’s favourite freely-available PDF magazine. I’m in it, as usual, writing about the dark dreams of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
And what fills the author’s dream? Behind his figure gather the monsters of the image’s title: owls, bats, cats, nameless creatures with wings and horns. Creatures of the shadows, half-glimpsed, cluster at his back and flutter about his lowered head. Eyes glow in the dimness, beaked mouths open to utter cries that we cannot hear but the dreamer, perhaps, can. Bats that seem horned like devils circle menacingly, an oversized cat or lynx crouches on the floor, head raised and eyes staring. On the author’s right an owl raises a pen in its talons, inviting him to continue with his work, to make new images, filled with the shapes that emerge from his dreams.
Much more excellent content can of course be found in the July 2008 issue (PDF), available now from the All The Rage website.
