I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper...
Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and...
CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
This was my first sculpture. I was around four. The rest of the preschool class made bunnies and snowmen. But I'd been peeking at Isamu Noguchi and Henry Moore in my mom's art books, so...
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
In my teens, I knew I wasn’t human. So I sculpted and animated and fell in love with and worshiped furry figurines...
My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits…
CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love...
CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
A sketch I made as a kid in a museum, of a Navaho painting of horses who got me hot...
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
One of my earliest drawings, of a quiet crowd of melancholy ghosts...
I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me down toward a black hole, and it’s laughing...
Not a guy with a tan. Yves Tanguy was a sailor who became a Surrealist. When I was nine or ten, his work inspired me to try my first landscape drawings...
A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer.