TRACES OF THE JOURNEY
The Art of the Dream
Fifteen years ago, Victoria Rabinowe dreamt a dream about sailing off to sea with a blind boatman for a captain. Shortly afterwards, in an act of faith, she sold her prosperous and nationally acclaimed Santa Fe gallery to embark on a search toward an unknown destiny. After months of active imagination meditations and mindfulness exercises, she attended a conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She became inspired to fill her journals with the musings, memories, narrative imagery and poetry of her dreams. Now, dreams provide the substance, spirit and depth of her artwork. Her paintings, drawings, videos and artists’ books are explorations of archetypal patterns, metaphors and symbols.
Victoria has developed a unique body of guided techniques in dream work, image making and creative writing. She has taught over five hundred workshops, seminars and retreats in The Art of The Dream for artists, writers, therapists and spiritual guidance counselors. She is a graduate of the Advanced DreamTending Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and an annual presenter at the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
Her artwork is exhibited in museums, galleries and universities throughout the United States and Japan including the Museum of International Folk Art, The Legion of Honor of The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Kyoto College of Arts & Crafts, the American Consulate in Kyoto, the Albuquerque Museum and The Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts.
Victoria’s passion is to gather accomplished, imaginative individuals of many backgrounds in irreverent groups of experimental, resourceful and eccentric individuals. She is an ardent teacher and an enthusiastic facilitator.
