“I want to be that demon,” thought Yushi Li when she came across Henry Fuseli’s oil painting, “The Nightmare” (1781). The gothic scene depicts a woman asleep in her boudoir, her arms thrown behind her head in a pose of total surrender – or rapture. Crouching on her chest is an incubus, a folkloric demon believed to seduce sleeping women. Offering both the image of a dream and a dream image, the painting’shellip;

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