THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: an Art Sampler, A-K

The World Dream Bank:
Art Sampler, A-K

LARGE LIST--PATIENCE!

A list of my favorite pictures and picture stories from the World Dream Bank. This is Page 1; see also Page 2.

RELATED TOPICS: the full Art Gallery -- Great Dreams -- Great Shorts -- Picture-stories -- Web comics -- Picture-poems -- Printed books and comics including the DREAMTALES series -- Paintings -- Pure digital art -- Watercolor -- Crayon and pastel -- Pencil -- Ink -- Felt pen -- Graffiti and tag-style art -- Woodblock prints (mostly digital fakes, I confess) -- Sculpture -- Experimental techniques -- Juvenilia: earliest art - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

The World Dream Bank has 1500 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, 2001-2006.

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	THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 210K, 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art and courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
	AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; 290K, eight images, 1995; acrylic on 30" disk, telling a 1989/7/26 dream. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
	AROO'S ENGINEERS: by Wayan; 1984/11/9-10, a Hawaiian dream epic. The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made?
	BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 149K total: painting of dream figures, 1998, acrylic on wood, 36 x 48" My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY
	A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 135K, 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
	BERNAL ISLET IN 2250: by Wayan; 175K (6 ill.), 2007/4/2, an undream painting My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island... CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA
	BLEEDING HEART, the SELF-HEALING CORPSE, and IN THE FUTURE DESERT: by Wayan; 250K, 10 illus., 2002/5/29 to July 2004, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series. A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her... CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
	BLUE MERANGEL: by Wayan; three views 40K total. 2000, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a local concert I was surprised to see that the cellist...
	BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 400K total, 1997/4/1, 9 illus.; two comic nightmares on body image. The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
	BOY BODY: by Wayan; 200K total? Dream-comic on body image. A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA
	THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 125K, 1996/4/2 dream illustrated by sculpture, 2000. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE AND QUITE EMBARRASSED ABOUT IT
	CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
	CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why...
	CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 210K, 1988? Dream-influenced life studies Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
	CENTAUR AND STAR: by Wayan; 640 x 500, 1994. Digital picture. I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams... CAUTION: BREASTS
	CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1980-84, a dream-series on shamanic families. Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest... CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
	THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 180K, 14 images, 1988/2/19, a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsily, lonely. Then a herald returns from the West! Donald Duck...
	CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; 620K total, suite of tinted pencil studies of dream-family, 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES
	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?
	CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 200K, 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
	COSMIC MAYPOLE: by Georganna Malloff; 140K, 1976-80s, dream-based drawings and totem poles I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream...
	COYOTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1999-2000, sculpture of dream figure.. A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating.
	DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/25, a revisionist Christmas dream. The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DRAGON ME: by Preston Young and Katie Hofgard; 2005/2/14? a collaborative dream-portrait. Preston dreams he's a dragon and his girlfriend Katie drew his portrait from his account
	THE DREAM: by Henri Rousseau; 1910, a (collaborative?) dream painting Rousseau's famous painting of a woman who falls asleep on a sofa and finds herself in a glorious jungle may just be a real dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING
	DUBIA: by Wayan; 800K, 20 photos, summer 2003, a nondream sculpture/prophecy/travelog. What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles... CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
	ELF EYE: by Wayan; 2002/5/20, dream figure in acrylic on wood A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us...
	ELVEN DANCER: by Wayan; 1999, 14" mixed-media sculpture of waking fantasy. I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY... CAUTION: NUDITY
	ERECTION 2000: by Wayan; 60K; ceramic sculpture, 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE
	THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
	FASHION SHOOT: by Wayan; 114K, Oct-Dec 2000; nondream ceramic sculpture 10.5" long. Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	FIND SOMEONE SPIRITUAL, STUPID!: by Wayan; sculpture, 9", 1996; talismanic figure . A sculpted reminder I hung over my desk like Clinton's sign "It's The Economy, Stupid!"... CAUTION: NUDITY, PRESIDENTIAL MOCKERY
	FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	FIVE HEARTS: COMIX: by Wayan; 699K, dreamed 1989/1/11; a sexy psychic unicorn dream. Too big? Page by page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Or text version: FIVE HEARTS I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
	FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 215K, 1996, pencil, digital tinting; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	FRANCHISE!: by Wayan; 170K, 1995/10/12, a comic dream with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
	GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 560K, 9-page comic of a 1993/1/15 dream. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE TO INNOCENT VENDING MACHINES
	THE GOLDEN KEY: by Wayan; 200K, 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson . I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 440K, 27 watercolors, 2004/10/2, a dream of a furry ambitopia. A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! Why? Well... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 320K, 1996/5/13; dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter.
	I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream; 9-page comic, 500K (or open page by page: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld... CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
	I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 640 x 440, 1989, reworked 1994. Digital picture. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989. Nondream, digital graffiti-poem-poster. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
	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
	IRONY: by Wayan; 300K, 2007/6/15. A comic burned into (what else?) an ironing board I'm so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
	JAREDIA: by Wayan; 770K, 26 illus, early 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. I tilted the Earth to created a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica?
	KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a happy sexy flying dream that turned tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later� CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
	KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
	KIOSK: by Wayan; 250K total, 1994/5/1, a major dreamtale, 7 illustrations. I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	THE KRELKIN SISTERS ON MISSION ST: by Wayan; 261K, 1995/6/7, a dream of superior beings I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY