In All My Dreams | René Depestre’s Hadriana In All My Dreams, illustrated.
Series of acrylic paintings on paper inspired by Haitian author René Depestre’s 1988 novel Hadriana In All My Dreams.
"I died on the night of the most beautiful day of my life: I died on the night of my marriage at the Saint-Philippe and Saint-Jacques Church"
“When I finally came to, I found myself on the town square, stretched out between the candles dotting Lovers Lane”.
“I must have dropped off again, as I was abruptly awakened by a bugle call, a tremendous reveillé on the other end of the square, soon drowned out by the rada drums.”
![“You ungrateful, motherless little boy. I condemn you to the category of the most loathsome half-breeds of the Caribbean.[...] On the dorsal part of your thorax, you’ll have violet, eye-shaped circles, a malachite-green mustache, a canary-yellow mou…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e67fd1e4b0e3df8c06846a/1581288968948-SNU7SSSNY1YLPTFVZT5N/Hadriana+In+All+My+Dreams)
“You ungrateful, motherless little boy. I condemn you to the category of the most loathsome half-breeds of the Caribbean.[...] On the dorsal part of your thorax, you’ll have violet, eye-shaped circles, a malachite-green mustache, a canary-yellow mouth, a square chin, the overall air of some godless bandit of a white man- a goddamned skull and crossbones!”
![“He would wait until nightfall to slip into a bedroom and then hide out under the bed. Once his prey had fallen asleep, he would fill the air with his aphrodisiac exhalations. […]”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e67fd1e4b0e3df8c06846a/1581289174671-6UFZSBOTQBYSMRDISHHX/Hadriana+In+All+My+Dreams)
“He would wait until nightfall to slip into a bedroom and then hide out under the bed. Once his prey had fallen asleep, he would fill the air with his aphrodisiac exhalations. […]”
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