By Ray Rogers
With contributions from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Ai Weiwei, Eric Fischl, Renee Cox, Sean Scully and LongHouse Reserve founder Jack Lenor Larsen, DayDreams, curated and edited by James Salomon, a keen-eyed gallerist and art adviser with deep roots on the East End, is an invitation to step inside the dreamworld of some of LongHouse’s and the Hamptons’ most notable artists. “Daydreaming is a romantic notion of impractical thought,” Salomon tells Purist, “and yet sometimes the seed that boosts our creative energy.” Julian Schnabel’s triptych, shown here, is a case in point: three stills from his 2007 film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, paired with a hand-transcribed passage from Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir of the same name—a book composed entirely inside Bauby’s mind, one blink at a time, after a stroke left him paralyzed. Elsewhere in the book, Schnabel writes out Vincent van Gogh’s own daydream of companionship, of someone simply asking how he is. Schnabel, who directed film adaptations of both men’s lives, chose two writers who built entire interior worlds because the outer one had stopped answering. longhouse.org
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