Myth Becomes Dream

Myth Becomes Dream ; I was thinking about time gone by, holding in my mind the world of what may have been. Many, many thousands of years ago there were vast lands that now lie beneath the oceans of our world. Before the collapse of the glaciers and the rise of the waters people had a long time to knit themselves into the Drowned Lands that we now only can visit in dreams or visions. These ancient long-lost people had stories. The stories, when their homes disappeared beneath the waves, became myths. And these myths, as the ages pass, have also disappeared. Storytellers die away and their words are no longer spoken. New people, new lands, new stories, each in turn slipping into that deep and faraway place we now sometimes connect into and say we are dreaming.

24″x18″ acrylic on canvas