Diego Rivera
"Communicating Vessels"
"Waking Life"
With the final piece now chosen for the Magic Museum brief the print "Communicating Vessels" from the exhibition Mexican Prints 1910-1960 in the British Museum. It was inspired by Andre Breton, a French wrier, poet and surrealist theorist, on his visit to Mexico, where the title refers to an essay that Breton had published in 1932. The essay refers to the interaction between the life of dreams and waking life in terms of the ebb and flow of fluid between two containers. Below "Waking life" a film which discovers different aspects of dreams and the restrictions and the polar aspect of being in control and awake in your dreams, being able to control. To ask yourself "is this a dream?" whilst still asleep.
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