Dreamscapes I - Betrayals (101 & 202 Nights)

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Combining fiction poetry and theater this hybrid trilogy begins as Maia a writer from the Sonoran borderlands finally committing to her life's work suddenly beholds the vision of Ondine a child she had desired yet reluctantly aborted 23 years earlier. Though Maia tries at first to discern and dismiss what is behind this spectral presence the girl takes on a will and traits of her own some evoking her father (who never knew a thing about her) others her younger siblings but mostly recalling Lise Maia's mother captured as a 5-year old in a 1920s photo.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Long guarded in the darkness by Hetna Maia's maternal grandmother Ondine soon emerges to act as her wayward mother's ethereal helper spurring her on to weave a protective veil of stories under which the two can meet: tales spun from the threads of everyday life - dreams memories and sensations that pass through her nights and days. Inverting the diversionary tactics of Scheherazade Maia thus finds the courage to return to her writing desk each morning delivering in episodic reprisals words that expose and disperse unfathomable truths belonging to their marvelous yet deeply strange and troubled family; tales resurrected for Ondine so that she too might redeem some form of life.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The nexus of disasters that Maia must work through makes it impossible to relay the story of her </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>vraie vie</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> (true life as Proust put it) in a linear manner. So she tells it instead in the ever-broken and revolving layered way she experiences it often reflecting works of literature music and art that have marked her to create instead of a tightly knit narrative a spacious suggestive mosaic; one that leaves gaps for the thoughts and dreams of others to shine through.</span></p>