{"id":18520,"title":"I Saw Water","dimensions":"22.80 x 14.24 cm, 228 p, language: English, publisher: Penn State University Press, ISBN: 978-0-271-06423-9","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/354","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"i-saw-water","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/260/medium_500/I_saw_water.jpg?1522699239","cached_actor_names":"Ithell Colquhoun","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/260/large/I_saw_water.jpg?1522699239","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUnpublished during \u003cspan class=\"ord\"\u003eIthell Colquhoun\u0026#39;s\u003c/span\u003e lifetime, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;has now appeared in print, in a scholarly edition with introduction and end notes. Composed almost entirely of material assembled from the author\u0026rsquo;s dreams, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water \u003c/em\u003echallenges such fundamental distinctions as those between sleeping and waking, the two separated genders, and life and death. It is set in a convent on the Island of the Dead, but its spiritual context derives from sources as varied as Roman Catholicism, the teachings of the Theosophical Society, Goddess spirituality, Druidism, the mystical Qabalah, and Neoplatonism.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWorking notes demonstrate the extent to which Colquhoun\u0026rsquo;s dreams provided the source material. She began work on the novel in about 1967, selecting dreams from her dream diaries from as far back as 1939. In the sense that she selected, edited and re-arranged her dreams, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water\u003c/em\u003e is a collage novel, comparable in certain respects to the collage novels of Max Ernst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/i_saw_water.htm\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":3135,"name":"Ithell Colquhoun","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}