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The Art Business

Dreams (and, on this page, some non-dream essays and comments) on the art business, from fine arts to commercial, from traditional to digital. Why so many? Well, I'm a working artist; my dreams reflect my particular trade. You're on your own where work is concerned; it's the one human experience that's highly individual; you're the world's expert on that part of your life, and thus on dreams about it, too.

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The World Dream Bank has 2100 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2010.

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ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love
Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
AIN'T EASY: by Wayan; 1990. Nondream digital Coyote dance poster.
As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..."
AMBITION: by Wayan; 1994/5/25, an odd little dreamlike real-life experience.
My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence...
A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream
Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming...
CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, BAD CAREER PLANNING
ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession.
Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
ARTSHOW IN A DREAM: by Wayan; 1983/9/18, a dream poem with 3 illustrations
A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
BANANA SLUG: by Wayan; 1994/6/9, a stupid little dreamtale.
After a day of enduring reverse sexism, a silly dream about giant banana slugs turns out to be psychic...
CAUTION: ANTIMALE SEXISM
BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, A dream on Nancy Kress's book on IQ.
Two rivals stand for ways of thinking, ways of life. Why won't they cooperate, see each others' virtues?
THE BUSINESSMAN IN ANGUISH: by Wayan; 1991/7/2. Digital dream painting.
I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central dynamo of our world finally erupting...
CLIMB DOWN THE PINNACLES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, l995/12/24, a surreal dream and painting
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 51K; nondream digital painting, 1998.
Coyote invades an abstract painting and reveals why the art biz likes conceptual, impersonal art...
A CROOKED BAND: by Wayan; 1996/8/21, a dream of chutzpah.
A spinoff band sues the original group for playing their own songs and using their own name...
GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 102K, 1995-6. Digital dream-figure collage
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
MY ART'S IN THE MUSEUM, ALL RIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/2/19, a dream on self-theft.
At last, I get shown in the museum! Sort of. Homeless people sell my art from carts in the lobby. Stolen!...
OPENING: by Wayan, 640 x 400, 1992 Digital picture.
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
PALM: by Wayan; 1994/12/9, a dreamtale on solitude.
I hang my artshow, but cut my palm. So I dream of a palm tree whose only problem is the road it's by...
THE POLYGAMOUS PILOT: by Wayan; 1990/9/25, a psychic dreamtale.
My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when...
THAT'S NOT ART! THAT'S ART!: by Wayan; 1995/3/19, a true story
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
UNRESOLVED OR JUST... DIFFERENT?: by Wayan; 1989/9/26, a dream on dreams.
In my dreams, a co-worker tells me HER dreams. Their focus is utterly unlike mine! Dream goals differ...


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