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Oil on wood panel - 8 x 8 in
Jennika Bastian is a Bay Area based magical realism painter. One of her favorite quotes is "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths," by Joseph Campbell. She views her artwork as a dance between these realms. When Jennika was 5 years old she taught herself how to lucid dream. Her aesthetic is informed by how objects, environments and characters appear in her dreams: shape shifting, ephemeral, simultaneously growing and decaying. She is fascinated by mythology and folklore in different cultures- particularly how these tales can thread within our subconscious minds, almost as if the stories are organisms unto themselves. When she creates a painting, she often asks herself “if my subconscious were a myth, what kinds of beings would inhabit that space, what places would they walk in and what motifs would breathe there?”
Oil on wood panel - 8 x 8 in
Jennika Bastian is a Bay Area based magical realism painter. One of her favorite quotes is "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths," by Joseph Campbell. She views her artwork as a dance between these realms. When Jennika was 5 years old she taught herself how to lucid dream. Her aesthetic is informed by how objects, environments and characters appear in her dreams: shape shifting, ephemeral, simultaneously growing and decaying. She is fascinated by mythology and folklore in different cultures- particularly how these tales can thread within our subconscious minds, almost as if the stories are organisms unto themselves. When she creates a painting, she often asks herself “if my subconscious were a myth, what kinds of beings would inhabit that space, what places would they walk in and what motifs would breathe there?”