The dreams created by Antoni Gaudí
11/22/33 Semester is over! Thanksgiving is coming! Vaccine is on the horizon! Ya li Ya li Ya li Ya! … Hilary Mantel (an English author) said that people like Princess Diana because of her human awkwardness and emotional incontinence. I don’t have much impression about Diana, but I do feel a resonance in that people with such nature are very attractive.
In my latest dream, I was traveling in North Korea. There are many brown hills. I was in a tourist group waiting for a bus that can ship us to a cave. It is a famous tourist site because the entire cave contains a giant clownish smile face … Wonderful! I suspect that insane people have crazier dreams?!?! Anyways, I am not gonna see a physiatrist for my insanity! Last time, when I saw one and attempted to discuss my surgery, I was “kicked out” probably because I looked too bored there, LOL
As I am getting older, I understand and appreciate the “surrealism” a lot more. It can extend the dream to reality and encodes reality with dreaming elements. Dream and reality no longer can be separated. You forget the time and you get lost in the four dimension space-time … Gaudí‘s work brings you such an experience.
The following is Casa Batlló @ Barcelona. Gaudí used curves for each window. See the snow coming from one window? The building in the middle is “hollow” for introducing sunlights, and the fake snows are blowed from the top like the snow blowing around in the cold dark night under the streetlights.
Casa Milla is another cool building designed by Gaudí. It is famous for it’s roof. “Wow, this is a dessert!” I said this when I walked out of the elevator. I have never seen something like this. (bear with me for my lame pictures)
Dreams are also extended to the park. Did you see yummy cakes! This is Parc Güell
Even, church can be made dreamy. This is the famous Basilica de la Sagrada Familia. In Europe, you can see so many churches. At the end, when you see a very impressive church, you are like “oh, this is just another church”. But this one is quite different. The inside is bright and white-ish with many colors.
This church is so big and complicated that even today, it is not finished. Constructions are still going on to finish the Gaudí’s design.
We lived right across this church, so I got a chance to walk around at night when all the tourists are gone.
In the morning, when I opened my window, I see this:
If you reserve online you can also go up to the top of the church. It felt mathematical behind these shots.
