Bright Shadow Press ~ New Mexico
(Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond)

Dreamboat 2
By Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bright Shadow Press, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.

14 x 11.5" closed, extends to 22". Black and white pop-up constructed of images from I had the Craziest Dream Last Night (Bright Shadow Press, 2008). The images have been handcut, laminated onto cardstock, and tipped into origami folded bases. All assembly by hand.

This is the second in the series of the Dreamboat pop-ups based on I had the Craziest Dream Last Night.

Douglas Fairfield, review of a Santa Fe Book Arts Group Exhibition: "A collaborative piece by long-standing BAG members Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond is a mark of excellence, whimsy, open-ended narrative, and creativity. Dreamboat (2008), a 'to and fro' book, is similar in construction to a pop-up book; but rather than being read in a linear fashion with one pop-up per two-page spread, Dreamboat aligns from bow to stern (front to back), revealing every pop-up in the book simultaneously for a cavalcade of images and figures calling for your attention. Done in a simple but graphic black-and-white color scheme, the imagery of bold designs, isolated body parts, and imaginary figures and animals - plus a few harmless monsters - has visual impact. The concept is actually a hybrid reconstruction of I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night, a book written and illustrated by Rabinowe. Is the new piece some kind of seaworthy phantasmagoria filled with a cast and crew of bizarre cargo?"
$750

I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night
Twelve Creative Explorations into The Genius of The Night Mind
By Victoria Rabinowe
Sante Fe, New Mexico: Bright Shadow Press, 2008. Trade Edition.

9 x 7"; 181 numbered pages. Perfect bound. Black and white illustrated wraps. Book design by Sean Wells..

Book cover: "The purpose of this book is to offer direct, simple techniques to help you explore your dreams with a minimum of research and reading."

Susan Hill, foreword: "Dreams defy the logic and the ego boundaries of the awake mind. They do not reveal their intent or intelligence easily; their treasure is offered through respectful listening and inquisitive creativity.

"As with all relationships, communication with one's own dreams is dependent on specialized, sensitive skills, best learned from an active, articulate, generous practitioner. Victoria Rabinowe lives what she writes and draws what she dreams.

"Each project offered here has evolved through concentrated, highly personal dream work, and through more than a decade's focused, creatively innovative work in her Art of the Dream group settings."
$19.95

Stories of Night
By Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bright Shadow Press, n.d. One-of-a-Kind.

10 x 13" closed", opens to 20" diameter circular structure; 18 unnumbered pages. Black and white laminated pop-up, hand cut and assembled. Uses pages from the book I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night. Images laminated onto cardstock then tipped into origami folded bases.

Another structural visual narrative based on Rabinowe's book I Had the Craziest Dream.
$750

Dreamboat
By Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bright Shadow Press, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.

14 x 11.5" closed, extends to 22". Black and white laminated pop-up, hand cut and assembled. Uses pages from the book I had the Craziest Dream Last Night (Bright Shadow Press, 2008). Images laminated onto cardstock then tipped into origami folded bases.

Douglas Fairfield, Santa Fe Book Arts Group exhibition review: "A collaborative piece by long-standing BAG members Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond is a mark of excellence, whimsy, open-ended narrative, and creativity. Dreamboat (2008), a 'to and fro' book, is similar in construction to a pop-up book; but rather than being read in a linear fashion with one pop-up per two-page spread, Dreamboat aligns from bow to stern (front to back), revealing every pop-up in the book simultaneously for a cavalcade of images and figures calling for your attention. Done in a simple but graphic black-and-white color scheme, the imagery of bold designs, isolated body parts, and imaginary figures and animals - plus a few harmless monsters - has visual impact. The concept is actually a hybrid reconstruction of I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night, a book written and illustrated by Rabinowe. Is the new piece some kind of seaworthy phantasmagoria filled with a cast and crew of bizarre cargo?"
(SOLD)