SFX: Music that signals we are entering a dreamspace. Echoey, melodic.  

SFX: Warm laughter and conversation, glasses clinking burbles up under his memories. 

KELLY: The night that I dreamt about this, I had gone to visit with two friends of mine, who lived in the Cité Universitaire. We talked and drank and we realized it was after one o’clock and the subways had closed. And my place was halfway across Paris. So they said, “Oh, we have another bed here. Why don’t you stay over?” 

SFX: Quiet undulating chords that suggest an altered state. We are going into a dreamspace. His voice in this section will be slower and more resonant — the sound of someone speaking in a dream. 

KELLY: So that night, I had this dream where I was on a scaffolding and I had children helping me.  

SFX: Echoey, distant, distorted, dreamy. The scrape of a ladder against a wall, children’s voices, laughter, then the swish of a brush. 

KELLY: And we had these big brushes, and painting these big bands on a wall.  

SFX: The dreamy chords fade out, we hear the chirp of birds. Then the sounds of a café, the murmur of voices, and the clink of a spoon in a coffee cup. This is a memory, not a dream. 

KELLY: In the morning, I remembered the dream, when I was having coffee. And I said, “Oh, I can’t forget this. I want to grab this image that I had in the dream.”  

SARAH ROBERTS: The mural in the dream was kind of these broken stripes, black and white, a little bit zebra-like. And he didn’t have the means or the place to go out and execute a mural, so he had to come up with this process of making a drawing and cutting it into squares and rearranging them in order to get the broken rhythm that he was looking for.