“The Milk of Dreams” is a collection of small texts, everyone weirder than the other. There is the story of the boy with ears so big that his head flew away, the story of three children having their heads cut off and helped by a stupid green Indian that stuck the heads back on the hand, the foot and the bottom of the children. Or the story of Ophelia that did a big strawberry gelatine for a party and a vulture fell into it, and she served it like that to the lady and master of the house. Quite difficult to make head or tail of these stories. The title of this book is the title and theme of the 2022 Biennale d’Arte in Venice and helps to understand several artworks in this exhibition.
“A white woman wore black.
Black with black.
She had black pyjamas and black soap.
All her things were black.
Black as night.
Black as coal.
But when the woman cried, her tears were blue and green like little parrots.
The woman cried a lot as she played the flute.”
