"Deep into that Darkness....." by Mimi Peterson

When I read this quote from Edgar Allen Poe”s “The Raven”: “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” I didn’t see it within the context of the poem but loved the words “wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams”. These words are so descriptive of what is experienced in a dream. The origins can not be explained, they are powerful sensations none the less. Poe’s narrator may have wondered If this was a day dream, conscious and deliberate, possibly real or a night dream from the subconscious, mysterious and chaotic. I chose a double flag book form (from “The Art of the Fold”; Hedi Kyle, Ulla Warhol) with the imagery on double rows of flags and two sides of the book flickering as it might within a dream. The large flags of the book are pinhole camera negative images that are unclear as in a dream. The small flags of mono print abstract imagery evokes doubt and wonder. Within my own dreaming