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Susannah Martin’s “Primordial Tourists” at Jonathan LeVine Projects.

Currently on view via Jonathan LeVine Projects’ virtual gallery is artist Susannah Martin’s solo exhibition, “Primordial Tourists.”

In her work, Martin seeks to contemporize the classic theme of the nude in a landscape; “I have always been fascinated by how artists throughout history have chosen to represent our interconnection with nature through the nude and how these choices reflect their epoch”.  Looking back throughout art history, she explains, “we witness the passage from the integration of man and nature in the works of the primordial cave dwellers to the slow and steady alienation culminating in the nearly complete disconnect that we see today in contemporary art.”

The exhibition is on view online until February 8th, 2019.

Setting the intention before going to sleep that I would experience a dream that night and that I would remember it

Having a dream journal in a convenient location. I use the Somnio app. I can record the dreams by talking rather than typing or writing. I’ve found that recording the dreams actually really helps with remembering them, and I dream a lot more than I used to

Relaxation before bed, such as meditation, relaxing yoga, or a cup of chamomile tea

Reading something very vivid while in bed. 

Making my bedroom conducive to sleep: a cool temperature and a comfy bed

Avoiding eating anything before sleep

Lucy Telles (Mono Paiute/Yosemite Miwok) showing off her largest basket in 1933.  Telles was a renowned basket weaver whose artistic innovations transformed Yosemite Miwok basket aesthetics.  The basket shown here, which took her four years to complete, won first prize at the 1939 World’s Fair.  It is one of the treasures of global art.