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ART EXPERIMENTS

Odd, experimental art--really a list for all the stuff that just won't fit any classifications.

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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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ABYSSIA: by Wayan; 500K, 2006/6/6, a small virtual world
A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Digital collage of dream images
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice and men...
CAUTION: CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
THE BIOSPHERE VARIATIONS: by Wayan; 15 MB, 2004-6, a set of sculpture-photo-drawing-travelog-webmazes:
Tour beautiful, bizarre worlds most exobiologists would write off as hopeless for life, and meet the natives...
CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
CENTAUR CIRCLES: by Wayan; 1991. Early, experimental digital painting.
An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it.
CLOCKMAN HEDGEHOG: by Wayan; 1992; painting of a sexfantasy turned a bit too real.
I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman...
CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR
COLUMBIA UPSIDE DOWN: by Wayan; 1992. Dream-tinged landscape.
I painted this upside down, with a mouse, then flipped it to see what I'd done...
CRAG: by Wayan; 1999; foot-high sculpture of a daydream.
Who sculpts landscape? So I tried a crag with a pool in a hollow on its knee, windows like red eyes...
CRAYON NAIAD: by Wayan; 2 images, 1994; nondream, art technique..
My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike...
DREAMVERSES: by Wayan; Aug-Dec? 2008, a dream-poem experiment
Each morning when I wake, I write one dream as a poem. What’ll emerge by the hundredth day?
DUCK!: by Wayan; 1988. Digital painting of a dream, 1987/6/5.
I was on one of the package dream-tours, an hour here, a scene there. But then, in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
EVIL ARCHY: by Wayan; April 2008; a non-dream poem in terze rima
Money, power, race and gender don't stifle my friends who work as much as hierarchical structure...
FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE REACHES UP: by Wayan; 1995. Crayon figure study.
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: REDHEAD SITS IN DIAMOND: by Wayan; 630 x 630, 1999/5/12
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
FLAMINGOS: by Wayan; 1998; nondream acrylic, 20 x 30".
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
FOX-SHEPHERDESS AND RAVEN: by Wayan; 1998, wet-on-wet acrylic of daydream.
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
FOX STORM: by Wayan; 103K, fractal painting of 1998 dream (exact date unknown).
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
FRACTAL: by Wayan; fractal painting, 1990?
Early Euro and Indian art liked bilateral symmetry; old Japan liked careful asymmetry. I like self-similarity.
FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005
I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too.
So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...
FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem
I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog...
GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of two dream-selves.
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
GURU GUTS: by Wayan; 1989? Digital sketch of my perceptual world.
If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila!
I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender.
I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse...
CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
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
THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 422K total, four digital paintings, each about 640 x 480, 1991.
Four versions of an undersea meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX
MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1980s, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia.
Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got...
NICHE: by Wayan; 1990, a poem on crashing your computer.
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
PEGASIA: by Wayan; 10MB mini-site (200 maps & images), spring 2006 to present (ongoing); tours of an alien moon.
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
(THE MOON IS PROPELLED BY) REELS OF LIGHT: by Wayan; 2000/11/17. Digital painting of the dream-process.
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
TWISTED!: by Wayan; 510K, 2003/6/23, 18 images; a nondream experiment
I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get...
CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS
THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique.
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 115K, 1994. Digital sketch of a vision... of this dreamsite?.
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
WIDE FACE: by Wayan; Digital sketch, 1991, of hypnogogic image.
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/23? 1 MB, a 9-page improv comic.
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
WINGVOW: by Wayan; 101K, 1994. Digital collage of dream figures
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
WINTER DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; winter of late 2004/early 2005, a painted series of color-dreams.
After teaching a class on color, I had a set of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1997-1999. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self.
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure.
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY


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