Friday, February 9, 2018

"I have Known you for So Long": a Black Pearl Resident

When the dream phenomenon of the Black Pearl first began to manifest, and I was wandering blindly through dark corridors which hummed vaguely with deteriorating machinery, I encountered various Residents there, going about their strange existences. The character seen above was one of the first I had direct interaction with. He seemed to recognize me immediately, and, although shy and hesitant to communicate, insinuated that we had a shared past which I did not recall.

When I awoke, I made a quick sketch of the fellow, unaware of where all of this would eventually lead. Months later, he reappeared in another dream, holding a different drawing of himself which he claimed I had sketched of him years before. Upon waking, the memory of this dream-drawing still clear in my mind, I realized that it was indeed a figure study that I had drawn in real life nearly ten years prior, long lost to memory and the wastebasket...
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  1. James, glad to see you are still documenting these excursions of yours, as I assume you would be whether made public or not (and for your sharing I am grateful.) Tonight I discovered the work of Jules de Bruyker; I believe you and he may have visited some of the same places:

    http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2018/03/jules-de-bruycker-1870-1945.html

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