-Paradise Found-
Asbestos is released from jail in the morning. After a meal of fresh baked bread and squeezed grape juice from his favorite restaurant he heads toward his friend Bed Head's House of Dreams gallery. The large country-style cabin contains three courtyards and almost a mile of winding corridors stretching the maze-like exterior in and around the surrounding forest. Due to the nature of the exhibits it's under constant construction but still maintains a completed appearance with each addition. Bed and his wife Vanessa Head are known in these parts as onieronaut artists. Explorers of the dreamworld manifesting fantasies into reality through their multi-media art gallery experiences. Having become dissatisfied with the lack of immersion achieved by standard singular mediums, they fully design and build each room in their gallery to be a macro-medium in itself, providing thematic backdrops for dynamic compositions consisting of everything from painting and furniture making to computer animation. All their ideas come from dreams and their art from a passion to experience them in waking life.
They begin by drafting blue-prints of the rooms Bed builds in accordance with appropriate acoustics, spacing and lighting for the exhibit. Then Vanessa usually floors, paints, stencils, wallpapers or however readies the rooms for their intended atmosphere. They’re filled with her furniture, rugs, paintings, sculptures, and other still life displays handmade for the exhibit. Speaker systems are installed to play anything from white noise to original theme music written and performed by Vanessa. Some exhibits include flat screens with looped video art, animation or cinematics. Then all exhibits include short stories and poetry written for the rooms by Bed Head. The latest is a spacious bedroom with giant picture windows, behind which concave plasma screens stream video of an apocalyptic seventh story city view. The only sounds are muffled screams and distant roars of fire. She models it after a dream of Bed Head’s, which he has just finished turning into a short story for display on the nightstand.
