Eyvind Earle’s Dream Forest
I can't remember when I first watched the 1959 Disney movie Sleeping Beauty, but as with Star Wars it has had a powerful effect on me so that the real forest is forever entangled with the fantasy forest as shown in that movie. I learned only recently that the fantasy forest was drawn by the artist Eyvind Earle, whose work I encountered over at the exceptional mystical style blog Door of Perception and which put me under the spell of nostalgia. The sheer power of this spell, and the degree to which the work of this heretofore unknown artist had infiltrated my psyche at a young age by the medium of Disney, leads me to speculate that my susceptible child psyche had been colonized (no other word for it) by an aesthetic style.
