Beyond sex, beauty, and cooperation, my dreams sometimes use flowers as a symbol for a fourth thing that has no common name: epiphany, maybe? Oasis? Climax ecology? I mean those times, and places, in a complex universe inevitably containing vast stretches of filler, when something extraordinary blooms. A galaxy, in a matrix of dark matter. An oasis, whether in a desert of sand, or ice, or pavement, or depression. A meeting you know will bloom into love. A moment when an ancient deadlock comes loose, when change can happen. The opposite of a catastrophe (those moments, like comet-strikes or a predator's pounce, when an intricate pattern dies). Both epiphanies and catastrophes are inherent, in any system complex enough to live in--like a universe. Extinction... and flowering.

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	ALLORGY: by Wayan; 1983/4/1, an allergic love poem. In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
	THE BIBLE REDUCED TO FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1994/9/8, a dream of the future. In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left... CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
	CELEBRATE BOTH: by Henry Sultan, 2005/6/26, a painting that blends two dreams At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think “At last we’re really connecting!”...
	FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; 699K, dreamed 1989/1/11; a sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (Plain text only) 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
	GALAXY FLOWER: by Wayan; 1993. digital painting of a (nondream) vision. My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
	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
	ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
	LILY OXYGEN: by Wayan; 500K, 16 illus.; dreamed 1984/1/19, drawn 2000; a strong psychic dream. I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams... CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
	MAMMAL FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital painting on recurring dream situation. Since I dream I'm an animal a lot (or I'm an animal that wakes to find it's human a lot) hands fascinate me...
	MANATEE: by Wayan; 1992. Digital nondream painting. Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies... CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
	MELTDOWN VALLEY: by Wayan; 1993/2/13, a dream of scrupulous balance. A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman... CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
	MOON BLOOMS: by Wayan; 1997/7/22, a dream on traces of love. Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
	RECOIL: by Wayan; 1995. Digital portrait of dream figures. Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower... CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
	SEX FLOWER: by Wayan; 480 x 640, 1996, unfired clay sculpture painted with acrylic, 9" tall. Robe or petals? Head or lilybud? Face or tongue or clit or slit? An eerie hybrid of person and flower... CAUTION: SOMETHIN' HAPPENIN' HERE, BUT WHAT IT IS AIN'T EXACTLY CLEAR
	TRIBUTE TO JOAN MIRO: by Wayan; 1984/2000. Erasable crayon, 14 x 17", nondream Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose.
	UNICORN SURGERY: by Wayan; 1996/5/2, a warning dream. After trimming a poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream well-meaning surgeons try to dehorn a unicorn...

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