Statues
This dream was remembered reasonably well as I woke up, but there was no time to write it down in the morning. By time I left for work it was entirely lost, although I knew I had a dream I had wished to enter in the log. No trace even of the subject could be recalled, even by trying in the evening. However, in the late evening, while recording the dream from the night before, it suddenly reappeared. This happened while I was doing a reverse search for the older dream I remembered.
Begin: I worked at an office job, in purchasing, production control or manufacturing engineering, or something similar. The office was attached to a factory, I believe, but was more like a kindergarten classroom than an office. I worked at a long table rather than at a desk.
Someone brought me some instructions to work to which I figured were a bit excessive. I am (in waking life) used to getting my inputs in really disorderly form, but these details were scribbled on both sides of a regular brown paper bag. The thing most interesting about the bag, which I examined with care, was a picture printed on one side. It was a scenic line drawing of a bridge (foreground), drawn as a view from on the bridge looking diagonally across it. There were some buildings and trees in the background. A semi-residential area of some age. In the left background, just at the end of the bridge railing, was a fire hydrant. The drawing was nicely done, and the details made it obvious they were drawn from life. The name of the town (in California ?) was printed with the picture. I think it started with an "H", but I don't remember for sure.
Back to the production details. They were for building a stylized statue of a horse. This was not our line of business, and I was a bit offended to be involved in what was apparently a "Government job" of prodigious magnitude. I didn't really know where to get the materials or what exact methods to use to construct this beast.
There was a related scene, depicting some statues on big concrete blocks along the highway (in Connecticut ?). They were all in a row near some trees well off to the side of the road and were proposed or being constructed by some artist as a (state funded ?) project. They were supposed to depict "The bright Gods of Egypt", but didn't look much like Egyptian Gods to me. I figured a bit too much artistic license had been applied. I commented about the likelihood of continued repair costs every time some drunk wandered off the road and destroyed himself on the concrete bases.