{"id":1213,"date":"2023-07-06T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:09:13","slug":"seductive-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/seductive-dreams","title":{"rendered":"Seductive Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/seductive-dreams-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/seductive-dreams-cover.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/seductive-dreams-cover-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/seductive-dreams-cover-210x135.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Seductive Dreams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>by David Peniston<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>David Peniston\u2019s collages and assemblages combine images and found objects to create the visual poetry of seductive dreams. His works of fantasy are peopled with captivating hybrid characters in surreal scenarios. Peniston captures altered realities that tap into mystical traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-peniston-king-louis-xiv-wtf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" width=\"699\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-peniston-king-louis-xiv-wtf.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-peniston-king-louis-xiv-wtf-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-peniston-king-louis-xiv-wtf-210x294.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>King Louis XIV WTF?!<\/em> by David Peniston<br>9.25&#8243;x7.25&#8243;; collage; 2010. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peniston is interested in the language of the subconscious. Dreams have a lexicon of their own and he tries to be as tuned into that reality as much as possible.&nbsp;Fernando Pessoa said, in his <em>Book of Disquiet<\/em>, \u201cA state of mind is a landscape; that would have the advantage of containing not a lie of theory but the truth of a metaphor.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br><em>Seductive Dreams<\/em><br>by David Peniston<br>64 pages<br>$28 USD<br><a href=\"https:\/\/davidpeniston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exquisite Corpse<\/a>, Oakland, California, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:penistondavid@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact the artist<\/a> to purchase the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Peniston<br \/>\nExquisite Corpse, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/seductive-dreams-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}