Out to The Fruitmarket Gallery last night to the opening of their ‘Print The Legend’ exhibition.

The exhibition, curated by Patricia Bickers, celebrates the concept of the Wild West as a possibility space.

In this land of possibility space, the archetypal often meets the specific, as shown in the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

In the film, Dutton Peabody, the editor of the Shinbone Star speaks the classic line ‘This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’.

When we dream, we often find ourselves printing the legend.  We take our own personal myths and legends and print them in the reality of our dreams.

As Joseph Campbell said ‘A myth is a public dream, a dream is a private myth’.