A dream on the day of the winter solstace, December 21, 1997 by, guitarist/artist Daryl Thompson, aka Maha Krisna Nanda (son of legendary saxophonist, Lucky Thompson) inspired this painting.  He had studied Kriya Dream Yoga with Sri Goswami Kriyananda and practiced lucid dream every morning before awakening. This particular lucid dream about painting on glass. He was instructed by a dream guide to wake up and tell me.  I reinterpreted his suggestion that I paint on glass to mean that, “I should paint what I see outside my window (glass) that evening”. I took a week to sketch the window frame before paint the literal scene. I later edited out trees in the foreground to make the image feel more open, and when the paint dried, there appeared an image of a face in the sky. An Akashic Records instructor told me it was the spirit of one of my ancestors. After I presumed the painting to be finished,  a friend in Pittsburgh had a dream in which she was implored, “tell Baabe not to forget the lemon.” She didn’t know what that meant, but I then remembered that a lemon from the  California garden of my neighbor’s mother that had been on my window sill weeks prior on the the winter solstice.

The curated music heard here carries the same name a the painting. Window Of the Winter Solstice is composed and produced by Robert Irving III and appears on his 1999 album Morning Sunlight release in Japan that year. I This album is soon to be released on the Sonic Portraits Jazz label.