Dreamboard: The Full Harvest Moon
Dreamboard. Full Harvest Moon. October 2009.
A Dreamboard for the Full Harvest Moon. Layers of transformation, expanding creative expressions, painting, photography, writing, type… The past, the present. And finding a focus for the future.
I was standing in the museum of a castle ruin, reading fascinating (no I’m not being sarcastic) and informative text on those typical museum boards, when suddenly the graffiti on the wall behind the board caught my attention. Or rather came forward to me, like a wave of text, like light, layers and layers of graffiti carved onto the stone wall. And I started to photograph the graffiti, going from room to room, floor to floor, captivated by it, following its light, and forgetting everything else… The earliest date I found was 1609, and the most recent was 2009. It was like a living memorial to all those people. I imagined each person writing their name on the wall, carving glorious moments of stolen kisses, or writing a “here I am, I exist” in the middle of an everyday experience… I wondered if people ever recalled, later on, the moment when they crafted that graffiti…
When I returned from my journey to Öland, my best friend wanted to see my photos from my trip, but I mostly have loads of photos of this graffiti from the castle… One of the images, the one below, was the starting point for this collage, and was meant to be the focal point, and yet it didn’t make it in! Somehow it just got to be too much.
Here is a desktop wallpaper and an October desktop calendar version of my Harvest Moon dreamscape.
Centuries of layered graffiti on the wall of a castle ruin.
Tags: collage, creative process, Creativity, dreamboard, dreams, fonts, full moon, grafitti, handwriting, history, layers, letters, making wishes, orange, Photography, purple, vintage, watercolours
Hi Kate. I really like your dream board. I also make a dream board on the full moon of every month. The next time I go wandering through a castle I will look at the graffiti. It is really so beautiful. Take Care.
Hello Valarie! I didn’t realise just how powerful the moonboard can be! And my first dreamboard was an image I had so much fun creating that I dreamed about it and it would wake me in the mornings! I’d love to see yours some time, but I understand if you want to keep them to yourself!
The layers upon layers in both your image and your story are wonderful.
I love the layers on your dreamboard. May your harvest dreams come true.
Your dream board is beautiful. I never thought of graffiti as art before but it is amazing for you to see the history in it. May all your dreams come forth. Have a wonderful week.
Absolutely beautiful! It captured me immediately! And how wonderful to have discovered the ages old graffiti!
Beautiful! The graffiti is so interesting too. I love discoveries like that.
Lovely! May you expand fully into all your Harvest Moon dreams!
Happy to be celebrating Harvest Moon dreams with you! I wish your dreams to come true of finding your focus~ Continue your creativity!
Stunning board! I love the photograph, too. Seeing that layered graffiti wall “in person” must have been quite something.
Wishing for you that your Harvest Moon dreams come true.
Awesome Vision board. The layers pop out with the written words, you are well on your way. The expansive layers of creativity are ever present!
Wishing you that your harvest moon dreams come true
Thank you for your comments, fellow dreamers! I just went outside to see if I could catch a glimpse of the Harvest Moon. It’s cloudy. No moon in sight. But the lake, the sky and the clouds were all shades of purple and orange, like in my dreamboard… Dreamy!
that is one beautiful dreamboard you’ve created there.
I’m a huge lover of all forms of streetart so this really spoke to me.
may your visions come true
How beautiful – the board, the experience, the story. I’m imagining you adding your own mark to this centuries long tradition. May all of your dreams come true.
I’m so glad you decided to join us!
Wow, absolutely beautiful! “Layers of transformation” I love that! May your harvest dreams come true :)
Such a glorious dreamboard, just stunning. Wishing you all this and more!
I adore your dream board lots! The layers are just perfect! Have a lovely merry happy day and love to yoU!
Kate, how visually stimulating! You look like a fun person and that is the thought that popped into my head the moment I opened your page earlier today! The story along with your dreamboard was exciting to read and really drew me in along with your dreamboard. Wishing you a month full of your dreams!
What a beautiful dreamboard…. I am just as entranced by your one example of the graffiti, I’m sure I would’ve been there for hours! May all of your creative dreams and visions come true this month… You’ve made a beautiful beginning!
Love your dreamboard-the soft colors, the layers and the typewriter! May your dreams come true.
What a gorgeous dreamboard. The colors, the layers, the images!
May all your Harvest Moon wishes come true!
Yay , you put a photo of yourself up!!
It is such a gorgeous , engaging photo!!
Cheers , Helen
Yes i did! Eek! Laughing!
This is so intriguing and beautiful with the layers! I hope all your wildest dreams for this month come true! :)
I love the layering and the colors in your dreamboard.
what a unique and wonderful dreamboard ! thanks for sharing, and may all of your dreams come true! :)
Very, very creative. It is a fascinating contrast from the typical dreamboards. May all your dreams come true this month…and then some!
I just got back home and this evening the almost full moon was out. The Harvest Moon. So bright! Thank you for all your beautiful comments, fellow dreamers!
xx
Kate
May the Harvest Moon shower her bounty on you! :)
thanks for visiting, I must say the old graffiti in the castle is pretty magical! as is your version!
Dear Kate, I apologies for not adding a link to the definition of Pay It Forward (PIF) on my blog post, it is a phrase use to imply a constant state of doing good when someone does a good deed for you, instead of paying them back, you pay it forward by doing a good deed for someone else.
Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
Helen and Genie, thank you so much!
Jacqueline, no need to apologize, and the penny drops!
Breathtakingly beautiful — truly layers of transformation!
Love your dreamboard and the graffiti photo.
I love history – and the idea that so many lives intersected in this castle is fascinating stuff – would be a great book!
Thanks for stopping by.
Wow! What a beautiful piece! May all your full moon dreams come true.
Hi Kate, wow what a gorgeous image and beautiful written description. Love the layers and history. Happy dreaming! Wini :)
Kate-What a great dream board! Glad to see we are both in a stage of discovery. It is fun to discover just who you will be.
Cheers,
Dana
Expressive Hart, Bev, Helen, Wini and Dana, thank you all for your wonderful appreciations!
Yes, the grafitti, and the lives of those writing it, is so very evocative to me too!
Dana, yes isn’t it wonderful to feel playful and to rediscover, transform… one’s art?!
Take care everyone!
I am blown away by the beauty of your art, and the beauty of your heart.
Are you familiar with the term “pentimento”?
I once did a series of biographies for a magazine with that as my title…Peeling back layers and finding more beneath!
what an eye you have!
Thank you for your lovely comment, June! No, I hadn’t heard of “pentimento”, but of course I was curious so I read this article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento
Fascinating… It makes me think also of when you redecorate an old house, and you can peel off the layers of wallpaper to find so many different styles from different periods…
It’s so evocative this whole idea! Thank you for developing the idea!
Surprise!
June sent me the site of your blog so here I am. Hopefully, you will receive my message from across the waters.
Your art is so lovely. The warm, happy colors remind me of you and our gathering what sems to be a million years ago.
I can’t tell you how proud I am of your work. My intention is to stay more in touch.
Your dreams really are coming true.
Dear Aunt Jane, what a lovely surprise! Yes, those are cherished and happy memories!