A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause...
Guan Xiu, a painter in the late Tang Dynasty, dreamt that sixteen arhats
or luohans (Buddhist sort-of-saints) asked him to paint their portraits--
not their earthly forms but their (rather peculiar) astral forms. He did...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering about, content with my lot. Suddenly I awoke and was Chuang-tzu again...
An image influenced by a recent dream, "Centaur Quartet...
Coco Chanel's fashion workers want me to screw Coco's cat,
so she'll stop screwing them financially...
CAUTION: SEX KITTENS
My dream critiques a non-dream artpiece. Does it only count as dream-art
when your dream urges changes, or is creativity partly knowing when to stop?
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
A self-portrait, or it was going to be, till the songbird and fish upstaged me...
Painting an abstract watercolor, I drifted into trance, and found myself climbing a
thorny slope. Deer in the brush. Great peaks around. Had I gone wrong?
Hokusai's wild mad lines inspired me to draw myself his way, floating asleep on the astral sea...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and
take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all...
A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her?
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
After you died, I dreamed of horses trapped in nets. Months later, in mist. By a year,
in stables, saddled to ride. But only now am I ready to start my journey without you...
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs.
But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
In a Japanese house I met a charming red-headed girl and had this
weird urge to scratch her pointed ears. Oh! She's a kitsune!...
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
I visit a friend's ramshackle cottage--trees grow through the walls. But glorious meadows! Spring at last...
We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we
can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us..
CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike
across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see...
CAUTION: SEXY FUTURE CRITTERS
Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX
This strong slender mare is how most of my flying dreamhorses look: a practical lot, they know...
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
For years I dreamed of neglected pet birds, caged, starved, lonely, dead. But tonight
I lovingly groom my bird-emissary, who'll soon set out to answer a strange summons...
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence...
CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART