The quiet and peaceful face of Dream Sequence is painted with blue, purple, and gold paints, while the back of the head is decorated with butterfly decals. Bruria often includes actual cloth on her sculptures like the one that is wrapped around this head, inspired by the lace head coverings her observant mother would wear during their Friday evening Sabbath celebrations.
“I leave space for spontaneity when I drape the heads with lace. I never decide beforehand how I will paint the porcelain—the painted image appears from a different meditative space.” Artist quoted in Journal, The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Winter 1981
- Title
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Dream Sequence
- Artist
- Date
- 1978
- Location
- Dimensions
- 10 1⁄4 x 7 x 8 1⁄2 in. (26.0 x 17.8 x 21.6 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Jonas Rosenfield, Jr. in memory of Lenore Rosenfield
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- porcelain, glaze, china paint, decals, and cloth with slip
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure female – head
- State of being – phenomenon – dream
- Object Number
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1981.19
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI