With Dream Awakened Eyes: Seeing Charlotte Salomon
A probing and poetic book-length essay on trauma, history, art, and resilience.
In the winter of 2018, writer and artist Louise Steinman took creative refuge in San Francisco at The Firehouse, a space for artist residencies and community gatherings. During this contemplative time, she was mesmerized by a painting on the cover of a book she found on the shelf—a self-portrait by the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who was murdered in Auschwitz. A lyrical and profound exploration of the power of art to hold a mirror up to our own lives, With Dream Awakened Eyes is the result of Steinman’s healing exchange—via writing and drawing—with Salomon’s provocative gaze.
With Dream Awakened Eyes was published by Firehouse Press and is distributed by Ayin Press.