Jim Woodring: The Pig Went Down to the Harbor at Sunrise and Wept is on display at Frye Art Museum through April 16. JIM WOODRING
In the dream, a turquoise dog with a curved horn for a snout walks quietly up to me. A magenta dog joins us. Then there are skunks the size of horses with flowers as tails. I had this dream a decade ago, but I remember it because it’s one of the few times I dreamed surreal instead of the more obvious missed-plane, lost-wallet, wrong-boyfriend anxiety dreams.
In his artist statement, Jim Woodring (2010 Stranger Genius Award winner for literature) said that the 10 drawings that make up The Pig Went Down to the Harbor at Sunset and Wept are the things of his dreams and “each picture I draw is an attempt to answer one question and ask another at the same time.”