Vispo: Pieces Of A Dream / Moonage Daydreaming with Bowie

 

RTomens, 2022

A recurring dream theme: I'm lost in a city...usually desperate to catch a last bus, or having just missed the last one...is this a city dream because I'm a city dweller? Is it telling me that subconsciously I'm...always feeling lost...failure to get somewhere (creatively?) - I dunno, you tell me Mr Freud!

Pieces Of A Dream is a print/type combination (oh, you guessed?). Print the image first, then type, then print background colour because white always looks too...stark? I have done black and white, of course, but the warmth of a light brown is more appealing. is that what they call 'the beauty trap'? Mebbe. Not that I'm prone to falling into that one...although...it's noticeable that any piece that's warmer on the eyeballs tends to garner more 'likes'.

Not that one should pander to public approval. Look what happened to David Bowie when he suddenly found himself with a massive hit on his hands (Let's Dance) in the 80s. By his own admission, in retrospect, he lost the plot by thinking he had to write more hits. It took him years to recover his old self having sold it to 'the masses'. As I'm sure you know, there's a new Bowie film, Moonage Daydream, due very soon...

...yes, it does look good and will tempt us into a cinema for the first time since...Joker. 

As young teenagers we all freaked out in Bowie's moonage daydream when, as Ziggy Stardust, he caused us to press our space faces close to the album sleeve, memorise every line and singalong-a-Bowie. People talk of momentous albums from their youth. My generation idolises Ziggy Stardust. It's true though, you had to be there. For slightly younger folk it might be the Berlin albums but for me, the essentially-mind-blowing quartet is The Man Who Sold The World, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs. I recall just studying the inner sleeve spread to the latter when I should have been studying homework. I was a sci-fi reader even before Bowie landed but when he did, his lyrics brought futuristic ideas to life in sound and vision.