Original Oil Painting
© Stevon Lucero

Size: 42x50
Medium: Oil on canvas
Price: NFS
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Description: Sleeper's Dilemma was a vision I had when I was eight and had to go in for a tonsillectomy. They wrapped a towell of ether around my nose and had me count down from 100. As I started to count I immediately went into a dream state where I saw a man I perceived to be myself as an adult. He was standing there quite naked in the middle of a maze composed of a hedge that seemed to be made out of stone. It had the look of a regulare square cut hedge, but was hard like a rock. It was growing around him.

The man was standing in the middle with a large sickle in his hands. He took the sickle and tried to cut down the stone hedge. The hedge cut like butter and would fall back. As it fell it would crumble apart and disappear. He was trying to escape and would cut in a complete circle. The maze would keep growing back until he was right back to where he started. Everytime he finished he had to do it again. This continued unitl I passed out.

The sleeper's dilemma is that we eternally stay trapped in the human condition of destroying each other in our myopic view of the world. We believe that we are awake when we are really asleep. At the point of awakening, we must either actively make that dream manifest or go back to sleep and dream of heaven, not recognizing that the kingdom is already here. It's within. All you have to do is bring it out, you must wake up.

Go to the poem "SLEEPER'S DILEMMA"