Taveras\'"Dream Art" origianted from her experience of reading Jung\'s MDR.

1. THE DREAM ART OF MARIA DE LOS ANGELES TAVERAS " DREAM ART " derives inspiration FROM THE RED BOOK , THE PRIVATE JOURNAL IN WHICH C.G.JUNG RECORDED HIS "ACTIVE IMAGINATIONS."

2. In the Red Book , Jung transcribed his dreams and fantasies and illustrated them in beautiful colors. The Red Book resembles a medieval illuminated manuscript or the engraved visions of the romantic poet William Blake .

3. The Red Book exemplifies the technique that Jung calls "active imaginations." Active imagination is the Jungian method for engaging in a dialogue with images that spontaneously and autonomously emerge from the collective unconscious in dreams and fantasies.

4. This is the technique that I draw from to create my " Dream Art." I sculpt and paint the psyche. I create works of art using archetypal images from my own dreams. It is a creative process that I call "interactive morphing." (Morpheus is the god of dreams in Greek mythology.) As Jung does in the Red Book , I engage in a dialogue, or conversation, with the images that emerge from the collective unconscious in my dreams, and then I render these images as sculptures and paintings.

5. The Red Book , which is now being published as a facsimile edition and English translation, is being exhibited publicly for the first time ever at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City from October 7, 2009, to January 25, 2010 (www.rmanyc.org/events/load/308.)

6. EMERGENCE OF THE WINGED SERPENT

7. EMERGENCE OF THE WINGED SERPENT

8. The Emergence of the Winged Serpent

9. SERPENT WOMAN

10. SERPENT WOMAN

12. "Serpent Handling Woman"

16. ARRIVAL OF THE WINGED SERPENT Arrival of the Winged Serpent

19. Arrival of the Winged Serpent in Studio

21. TRANSFORMATION OF THE FEMININE

22. Bondage of the Feminine Work in Progress

23. Golden Woman Dreaming of Walking Feet

24. "Golden Woman Dreaming of Walking Feet"

25. Me and Not Me

26. Rapture of the Blue Anima

27. Cosmic Eye and the Feminine

28. Birth of the Inner World

29. Winged Serpent Woman

30. Serpent Coiling Woman

31. THE DREAM ART of MARIA de los Angeles TAVERAS "DREAM ART" derives inspiration from the RED BOOK, the private journal in which C.G. JUNG recorded his "active imaginations."