DayDreams By James Salomon

DayDreams, a book created and edited by James Salomon chronicling the daydreams of artists that have been affiliated with LongHouse: Ai Weiwei, Bjorn Amelan, Laurie Anderson, Monica Banks, Noah Becker, Scott Bluedorn, Liz Collins, Renée Cox, Quentin Curry, Jeremy Dennis, Eric Fischl, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Glass, Melinda Hackett, Michael Halsband, Maren Hassinger, Lori Hawkins, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alice Hope, Judith Hudson, Fitzhugh Karol, Benjamin Keating, Laurie Lambrecht, Richard Landry, Joel Mesler, Steve Miller, Oscar Molina, Jill Moser, Jill Musnicki, Jill Platner, Cheryl R. Riley, Ugo Rondinone, Toni Ross, Julian Schnabel, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Ned Smyth, Agathe Snow, Toshiko Takaezu, Lawrence Weiner, Mark Wilson, Dustin Yellin, and Almond Zigmund, among others.

This makes the daydream the perfect subject for an art book, for it stands in relation to everyday life as art does to the rest of society. Alone among us, painters and poets are granted–they grant themselves–the right to explore their own awareness, with no predetermined end in mind. This is not to say that they have no responsibility. On the contrary. Artists work just as hard, or harder, than anyone else, and almost invariably they do impose parameters on their creative practice, laying down a pathway through the vastness of what’s possible. That infinite expanse does remain on all sides though, not seen (for how could it be?), but rather felt.              

 - Glenn Adamson

DayDreams features an Introduction by Glenn Adamson with contributions from Dianne Benson, Alastair Gordon, Andrea Grover, Carrie Rebora Barratt, and James Salomon.

This book is the second in a DayDream series that originated at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in 2025. Several artists from both books will be reading their stories to the audience.

The book will be available for sale, with all proceeds going toward Education at LongHouse.

Cover image: Jack Lenor Larsen's Hills of Home, 1970, © Cowtan & Tout, Inc. All rights reserved.

This publication was made possible with the generous support of the Dorothea Leonhardt Fund at the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc., Sophie Sutton & Jeff Drubner, Jonathan Canno & Pierce Canno Roberts, Jeff Gates & Mike Moran, Christina & Nick Martin with Martin Architects, and anonymous friends of LongHouse.