Stealing The World's Greatest Work of Art

Monday October 28, 2019 10:30 am

Stealing The World's Greatest Work of Art

I am watching the stealing of the world's greatest work of art. It is a stature and there are workers with digging tools removing dirt from the foundation. It is a deconstruction project. I am viewing or experiencing the project from below.

Each time I return to sleep I am back int he same dream space and the efforts are further along. More destabilizing with increasing uncertainty of the projects actual end.

There is an increasing feeling of uncertainty about the endeavor. The eating away at its foundations has eaten away at the beliefs that the work represented. There is also an increasing feeling of instability and inability to resurrect it properly in a new location.

I wake feeling the emotional darkness of the project, but still amazed that I am three days running of long dream continuity sessions.

Prisoners (c 1519-34)

Michelangelo's Prisoners, or Slaves, were begun for the tomb of Pope Julius II but never finished. In its entirety – including the Dying and Rebellious Slaves in the Louvre and the statue of Moses on the final, reduced version of the tomb eventually erected in Rome – this constitutes the greatest unfinished masterpiece in the world. Yet Michelangelo did not leave things unfinished out of laziness. It is an aesthetic choice. The tragic power of these prisoners as they struggle to emerge out of raw stone is an expression of the human condition that equals Shakespeare's Hamlet. –

Notes: Contiguous dreams three days running. I looked up "the world's greatest work of art" and found this Michelangelo sculpture. It was only on one list, David and The Pietà were much more common. But, I found this one first.

What does the dream want? For me to travel the world in search of great art? Likely not. A warning about the destabilizing effects of destroying society's foundations? A cautionary tale of cheating or stealing?