ART EXHIBIT....Look for it EARLY NEXT YEAR (work is now in progress)

RELIGION, MYTH AND FANTASY

Dawn Hanna- Visual artist/ writer


'Religion, Myth and Fantasy' is a visual journey into the imagination incubating the interpretation of Dreams, Myths, story-telling, metaphor and symbols. It is about survival and the creative process. It is about dreaming...
Dreaming and visions in ancient societies were considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unraveled – dreams being a message of the unconscious.
Myth is to culture what dream is to individual. It is a narrative of symbolic language from its original source ('nothingness' - chaos) and from this chaos comes the cosmic order of life and existence.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and an influential thinker in his time. He is the founder of analytical psychology and a known pioneer in the field of dream analysis.
Jung believed that In all communities and cultures there exists Archetypes. Archetypes and symbols constitutes the structure of the collective unconscious. There is a common and collective symbolic language belonging to all cultures that are intermixed with images and dreams of the unconscious and consciousness of a breathing universe.
This Exhibit combines my individual experiences of myth and folklore to draw on dream interpretations of God, religion and the individual through a visual story- telling. This includes unique Bahamian folk traditions that have survived from Africa to slavery. However, it is an integration of Creation myths and a synthesis of many cultures. It incorporates Western Greek and Roman Epic Mythology, Judaic Christian imagery, Native American and East Indian oral traditions. Through out it there exists universal human patterns of behavior where we all share these symbols and archetypes as part of the Human family.
'Religion, Myth and Fantasy' is about life and death, destruction and rebirth- the boundary between human and divine. Our exhibit sifts through universal metaphors and archetypes as the source of all inspirations and instincts including the beautiful and spiritual.
I am a writer, performer and Visual artist and have spent the past twenty years exploring a variety of influences in creative expression from oral story-telling to the Visual arts. I am a modern abstract artist preferring the democratization of space through line, color and form to emphasize new creative freedoms. I deconstruct the narrative to affirm universal symbols and metaphor.

This Exhibit will include a mixed medium of wood, canvas, vellum (sheep and goat skin ), limestone carvings and a mechanical installation...