Lourdes Valdés

Dream 66.99-02

2020

My dream begins in sepia, I am dressed in an air force pilot uniform from the 1940s, behind me is a spectacular propeller plane with front and rear compartments, in which my two children are passengers on board, Emil and Michel, 13 and 10 years old. I am about to take off and fly away, a job that I am very familiar with, but strangely enough, this time it takes huge effort to go airborne, it is not the weight of the plane but mine, with a lot strain I manage to take off, and immediately the flight lightens, the fun begins, and then ... the dream turns to colors, a predominant indigo blue of the sky surrounds us. With amazing skill I manage to do some incredible stunts and swooping descents, we all feel a void in our stomachs but we all enjoy the adrenaline rush and we had a lot of fun.

It is time to land the airplane, in the outskirts of Mexico City, it is an important challenge for my skills because I must not collide with the vehicles circulating there, I also need to go through narrow tunnels; miraculously I succeed and I feel very happy.

*The title of this work is a composite of the birth dates of my two children and mine.