Every human being has a consciousness, a mind and thus the gift to act in a controlled way. Only during sleep man gives up his consciousness and thus his sacred characteristic, which distinguishes him from the animal. In sleep he feels reminded of his kinship with the animals. Here we remember our origin from the bosom of nature, our primal fears and desires, our urges and our secret longings. Everything animal in us is given over to freedom. Unbridled, irrational, emotional and even fantastic is the world with our inner beings, which we visit every night in our sleep.

The cave paintings of the Stone Age and their original form of expression, especially the mystical and marvellous depictions of animals, serve as a source of inspiration for an archaic aesthetic and form the entrance to my dream journey. From this point of view, I travel with my omnipresent soul deep inside myself through sleep.

„In the very earliest time,
When both people and animals lived on earth,
A person could become an animal if he wanted to
And an animal could become a human being.
Sometimes they were people
And sometimes animals
And there was no difference.
All spoke the same language.
That was the time when words were like magic.
The human mind had mysterious powers.
A word spoken by chance
Might have strange consequences.
It would suddenly come alive
And what people wanted to happen
could happen
All you had to do was say it.
Nobody could explain this:
That’s the way it was.“

Magic Words, Edward Field – after Nalungiaq
(an Inuit poem, translated by Edward Field)