Trinity by Valerie Hird

Trinity is a book about a dream. The manuscript, originally commissioned by the Brooklyn Art Library, presents a series of illustrations from the perspective of a dreamer dreaming of a dream. Its structure envelops, protects and hides its content until unfolded layer by layer. The image elements describe a remote island, a child maturing, and their manipulation of, and merging with, the island's natural and man-made surroundings. Presented like a deck of tarot cards, each enigmatic archetype presents a different element in a loose narrative which – much like our dreams - invites the viewer to reshuffle, re-cast and imagine their own version of the story.It seemed necessary when envisioning how to construct this book, that it carry the character of my dreams, vivid, colorful but disjointed. The elements needed the ability to be re-imagined and re-ordered as can happen when lucid dreaming. So it was with intent that the narrative cards are unnumbered leaving the order of events to its ow