The Beach of My Dreams
Echoes from Celo, Alpha Centauri
The Beach of My Dreams; Echoes from Celo, Alpha Centauri (2025), acrylic on a board, 13x18 cm.
‘The Beach of My Dreams; Echoes from Celo, Alpha Centauri’ is a series of miniature painting studies made after a same-name poem I wrote after I dream I had in 2021.
It depicts otherworldly landscapes, mainly seaside and seascapes, of an exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A system, with some futuristic technological motifs such as a fleet of silver craft gliding through the sky in front of an imposing, bright moon orbiting around the planet.
The Beach of My Dreams (2021)
I dreamt of a beach with pink, crystal sand,
It’s tiny grains glistening in the light.
I dreamt of a pink beach from the far land,
It’s shores bathed in light so white.
The sand beneath my toes coarse, yet so soft;
Just like the view!
Vivid pink bleeding into amethyst on the horizon,
Dancing with swirling zesty lemon around the somnolent sun;
Orange leaping from time to time, out of the sea to bid it good night.
Beyond my sight, something caught my eye
- a precious gem, no, it’s not a gem I saw!
Rows and rows of shelly snuggled in the crystalline bed,
an otherworldly nobility slept on the shore:
-noble pen shells covered in jewels of rouge.
I leaned forward wanting to see more.
“What is this magical place?” I thought,
an answer to this riddle I sought.
Beyond my sight, something caught my eye;
A woman clad in white appeared and gave
me a reply:
“-Celo,” was all she said,
and for a moment I wondered if I was dead.
Throwing white hair over her dainty shoulder
she smiled and offered me a hand,
What she wanted to show me I didn’t understand.
No words were spoken, no sentences said,
but I felt her thoughts, her presence, inside my head.
I felt myself slipping out of slumber’s reach,
Wakeness took hold and ripped me from the beach!
The last thing I heard, as I stirred awake and rubbed my eyes,
“Remember! Remember!! Remember!!!” insisted the woman’s cries.
