Monday, November 11, 2013

My dream of Kal!

I have been working on a sculpture from Simon's class, which I only discovered this morning after watching a documentary last night and having a dream about it is a depiction of the hindu goddess K@li. I've been obsessed with her since my younger years, I guess, because my neighbourhood (people in America NEVER believe this about me because they will generally put me into a box like I can conveniently do to them on this blog..mwhahaha) is predominantly of East Indian descent, and there is a GIANT statue in the back of my neighbourhood of her. She is black and tall and it is terrifying, and people make offerings to her where I live. I should really visit her and the large H@numan in my neck of the woods to make my point clearer when I return to Trinidad. Anyways... She possessed my dreams last night and I have always found her fascinating, especially in comparison to the more widespread L@kshmi (since D!vali was just a few weeks ago). I read that to dream of K@li is to triumph over things in your life and to have victory, and it represents that she will help you and that it is a symbol of good luck (and she is also a goddess of wealth and fertility. Or maybe I am just really homesick, as I am (in my dreams) dreaming of being home soon.

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