Otto M. Schwarz

Dreamcatcher

Once upon a time in the North of America. There, a mother and her young daughter lived with the Ojibwa tribe. The girl was plagued by nightmares again and again. Therefore, the woman sought advice from the spider woman Asibikaashi, who took care of the people and children of the land. She weaved a magical net to protect the child from bad dreams: a branch of the willow bent into a sacred circle, a woven net made of a string dried on sacred herbs, with a hole in the middle so that good dreams could get through. The dream catcher with sacred feathers lets only good dreams through and the bad dreams get stuck in the net. And when you wake up early in the morning and the first ray of sunlight touches the dreamcatcher, the bad dreams are burned and they turn into invisible stardust. In this work, well-known dream images are processed: the dream of flying, the transcendent encounter with a dead person and the chase with lazy legs. Everything turns out well, because the sun's rays burn off evil afterwards and we can't remember anything.