Creatures
Before I moved to Loch Eriboll I dreamed about this mysterious loch. The most significant dream was this:
“The tide was very low - the loch almost empty- and from Port-na-Con to Ard Neakie stretched a very old iron bridge. On the middle of the bridge a large green creature was sitting, on guard. Small creatures were crawling around the bottom or swimming underneath. Some had legs and crawl ashore.”
It was - and still is - such a vivid dream and it has filled my imagination ever since. So often when I work with clay, the dream creatures are there, surprising me even when I do not set out to make one!
Now every time I sit by the loch these images appear. Often it is just when watching the light play on the surface of the loch - or when the great northern diver and the eider duck float by - or when the otters pop up playfully from the depths.
Are the creatures in me or in the loch…or both?
