Katrina O’Brien’s, Dream Letter III (Not Pandora’s), is part of her solo exhibition, Dream Letter. 

Katrina says of this work: “This work was a return to my overt love of text. Throughout this series there was a great compulsion to write. The words not only appear in this work but spilled over onto the walls and floor of my studio, with the entire space becoming an ever-changing installation; a diary, a book. Holding myself back from the act of writing or typing is a difficult thing so I slept with a notebook next to me to write down the thoughts that woke me in the night.”

Katrina says of this series: “The title, Dream Letter, was inspired by the album and song by Tim Buckley with the same name. The song itself is not the inspiration, but the notion of writing a song, a painting or a letter to someone who may never receive it was the fixation of these works. For Tim, it was writing to his son Jeff Buckley, who he tragically never really made an effort to be a father to. Both their lives have always fascinated me—Tim, a bad father with an amazing vocal range, Jeff his son with equally amazing vocal skills—both not wanting anything to do with the other and yet their lives mirrored each other’s in a deeply compelling way. Both had so much talent and yet crumbled under the weight of it all. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to meet either of them. I wonder about the music they might have made if their fate had been to live on. Some of these imagined conversations play a part in my new works.”

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