Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-31
WOMAN ARTIST
PAINTS PICTURES
FROM MEMORY
Objects UnknOWn to Her Are
Portrayed ViUjdLy by
Strange Gift.

NEW 1ORhs May ol.--II suddenly
out Of nowhere. came a picture to your
mind which you proceeded to paint or
draw, that would be no very extraordi-
nary afftir, would it7
But, If weeks later, in a new land per-
haps, or in a book of photographs you
saw the identical thing you had painted
what would you sayI Especially if your
sketch showed an ancient temple or far
off villa whose like you had never seen
before?
Transmigration Of the soul, or the
theory OF reinca rnation, might, to some,
explain such an occurrence. But Miss
sydney Dyke rejects these theories. or
rather says she simply doesn't try to
account for her memory" pictures.
On the walls of THE Oasis" at
10 East Forty Seventh street, Miss Dykes
paintings hang at present. To the
uninitiated they look like very interest
ing water-colors Of landscape and de-
sign. But they are of two particular
kinds, those called symbolic portraits"
and the others, memory pictures"
MISS DYKE TELLS
ExPERLENC
Sometimes l have thought" says Miss
Dyke, that l have looked upon certain
scenes in another age, another place. But
l do not like to talk Of transmigration.
yet l do believe in something like
a continuity of life. For instance, there
is the Villa d'Este,' the painting over
there with the cypress trees, a little
pond, and a villa in the distance. When
made that had a strong feeling that
must put pinnacles on the building, al
though l thought they would be hardly
the thing. Later l met some one who
saw the picture and discussed it with me.
Il wanted to call 1t the villa Este
We got book of villas and found that
one really called by that very name
a fifteenth century building-had pin
nacles such as 1 had drawn.
"ReincarnattOn, as an explanation, l
don't like. The word is used by so
many takers that I must reject it."
Miss Dyke is tall, striking looking
young woman Of handsome and whole
some aspect. Her findings are not the
result Of incoming over weird psychic
subjects, but have come naturally and
simply to her attention. She has made
pictures, the ideas of which interested
her, and later found that they had an
odd significance. From that beginning
she perfected, by self teaching, her tech
.
sent her subjects.
PAINTS REMARKABLE
CASTLE PICTURE.
From the pages of a novel treating Of
Irish life Miss Dyke showed me another
OF her memory pictures interior
of a quaint old castle hall, oddly con-
structed, the plan Of which came to Miss
Dyke like a fash of intuition as she
explains.
Later after made the sketch, I went
to Ireland and met the Countess Clio
mortie, who VS. writing q book. l told
her OF the drawing Of a room Id made.
She looked at it, 1t was just like the
one In her home. SO she put my drawing
in the book"
Miss Dykes experience is a strange one.
Few of US there are who have not seen
something in a dream nd later seen
the original of our fancy, then became
bew .ldered as to which We really saw
first
But this artist has visioned scenes in
Egypt, where she has never Travelled;
scenes in ireland in a castle she has
never visited. And starting with only
an ancient head. Of which she made a
sketch in the British Museum, Miss Dyke
fashioned a painting which would make
the most skeptical tend to listen to tales
of transmi grafton.
MENTAL PICTURES
OF PLACES.
81 don't try to see these things usually.
I get mental pictures of places in which
l feel l have lived in previous days.
Sometimes we meet people that ap-
parently are strangers. men and women
we are not conscious Of ever having met
before. Yet we feel and they feel, that
a previous acquaintance in another age,
in another previous life has existed.
Meeting a person is like striking a
chord. Marconi for instance, gets mes
sages off the wireless. He doesn't know
what this force is he knows that he has
learned how to put 1t TO work. And a
current is Of no use without a connection.
I'm painting a portrait I determine
what planets govern my subjects life,
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, or whatever they
may be. All have their own colors.
Therefore, ! take the hues which shine
over the persons existence and put them
into appropriate form.
Placing myself in a negative. or
passive, state Of mind when I come in
contact with a person. my subconscious
mind seems to be free to receive impress
sions. These gleanings of character 1
use to make the portraits"