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ASHES, ASHES: by Wayan; 1996/1/29, nondream digital sketch. Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down... |
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BAD NOSE: by Wayan; 1990/10/1; digital painting of life as a psychic dreamer Having psychic dreams is awkward. People bite you for seeing their secrets... |
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BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY |
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BELIEF IS GRIEF: by Wayan; 1992/7/31. A two-page picture-poem Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice. |
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BODIES DIFFER: by Wayan; 1991? Nondream digital picture-poem summing up a life. Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies... |
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BODY MESS: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, 3x5" surreal nondream sketch. If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with flesh?... CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME |
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CLOCKMAN HEDGEHOG: by Wayan; 1992/10/5; digital sketch of being rejected by my own sex fantasy! 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 |
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COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 1989/8/24, reworked 1998/7/26, nondream digital painting. Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art... |
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CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily... |
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CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks... |
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CRYSTAL WAVES: by Wayan; 1990. Digital sketch of music-trance. How Bach sounded to me after seeing Fantasia... |
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DEER SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1981, 9x12" faux cave-rubbing. Partly based on the ancient cave painting "Le Sorcier", but here it may be the deer putting on human guise... |
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DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT... |
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DUCK!: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/6/5, digital painting 1988 I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM |
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E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS |
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FIGURE DRAWING: NOW HOLD THAT POSE: by Wayan; 1989/11/14 digital sketch of model clowning. Shasé liked absurd, impossible poses, and she held them heroically... CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY |
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FIRE IN THE BELLY: by Wayan; mid 1990s crayon of (nondream) vision I have 'fire in the belly', so I cheer up--if the magazines are right, I'll be President. But it's just bad food... CAUTION: BELLYACHING |
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FOSSIL BARBIE: by Wayan; 1978/9/27; a dream of non-teamwork. I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil... CAUTION: NUDE POTATO |
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FRAGMENTATION: by Wayan; 1990? Digital drawing on digital drawing. The first thing any beginner does with a paint program is behead someone. Why? CAUTION: PAINFUL SPLINTERS |
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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... |
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A GOLDEN KEY IN A CHEAP LIGHT: by Wayan; 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 STREET STONERS |
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GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1995/8/2, digital portrait of two dream-selves. Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes... |
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IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989/6/30. Nondream digital graffiti-picture-poem. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm! |
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I'LL TRY: by Wayan; 1990/7/5. Experiment: dream sketch to video to digital picture-poem. An early self-portrait rebelling against my gender and trying on beauty to see what'd change... |
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JUST SAY NOSE: by Wayan; 1989, nondream digital poster-poem-rant. What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly... CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB |
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KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1989/10/25. Early digital painting of a dream figure. Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no. |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
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LET'S IMPOSE: by Wayan; 1990/7/3. Nondream digital painting. Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world... |
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LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 1981? Daydream about seeing time spatially
The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY |
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LIZ: by Wayan; 1992/3/15, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST |
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LURK: by Wayan; digital collage of a year's dreaming, 1995/3/5. There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real... |
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MONSTER PROM: by Wayan; Dec? 1993. How parties look when you see auras. If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell... CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS |
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OR... IS IT YOU?: by Wayan; 1990/2/11 nondream digital painting on marginality. When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were... CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
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OVERKILL: by Wayan; 1991/11/22. Nondream digital picture-poem-poster. Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right? |
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OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983/3/16, daydream of a night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun... |
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OZETTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1988/8/23; dream-tinged landscape. West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago... |
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PASSIN' THROUGH: by Wayan; 1991, automatic (digital) drawing Painted as I heard that country song by Leonard Cohen, where Adam, Jesus, Washington, and FDR all get interviewed in their darkest moments, and they all sing "We're only passin' thru..." |
PATH: by Wayan; figures from 1989/10/12 dreamlet invade a waking landscape. |
My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS |
QUAIL TV: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, shamanic cave drawing. |
Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV... |
RADIATE SORROW: by Wayan; 1980s, a daydream poem. |
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone... |
THE ROCKS OF EDEN: by Wayan; 1982/11/28; painting-poem, summing up a life-phase, yet not a dream. |
A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands... |
RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1996/1/22, digital painting-poem on dreaming |
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS |
SAT UP CONFUSED: by Wayan; 1995? Self-portrait of that jarring state: undreaming. |
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue... |
SINGULARITIES: by Wayan, 1995/5/18 etc. (recurrent dream); drawn late 1994. |
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you? |
SWIMMER: by Wayan; 1992/4/15, a digital sketch of a daydream. |
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye... |
TACKY IS AN ANGLO IDEA, or, NEW BRACELET!: by Wayan; 1983/6/22. A bilingual undream. |
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun... |
AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT: by Wayan; 1990/11/2. Digital sketch of a San Francisco Samhain scene |
When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle. |
VALENTINE: by Wayan; 1989/2/14, a nondream picture-poem |
A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays... |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem |
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
WARRING MOIRES: by Wayan; 1989/6/29; digital abstract nondream picture-poem |
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield... |
WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream |
I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats! |
WE TALK IT OVER IN HIS BRAIN: by Wayan; 1989. Digital portrait of dream characters. |
My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams... |
THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 1992/8/13; daydream foreseeing the World Dream Bank? |
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right! CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY |
WHO WERE THEY?: by Wayan; 1999. Digital sketch of daydream. |
Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain. |
MERRY WITCHMAS!: by Wayan; 1990/12/22. Digital dreamy image |
Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night... |
WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 1994/1/31. Daydream/trance digital drawing |
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME |
YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. |
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it? |
ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. | It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
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