Deserts and Oases
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AIR OASIS: by Wayan; 1984/4/15, a dream of marginality. Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes? |
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BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape... |
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CAPITOL REEF: by Wayan; 277K, 1996. Cartooned daydream of a mid-air (or is it mid-water?) orgy News of a new national park fused with a science show on cleaner-fish spur a fantasy of dolphins, cats and... CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO |
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CHEETAH: by Wayan; 110K, 1978-86, a poem on turning dreams into art. I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat... |
| DESERT EYES: by Wayan; 1984/3/4, a dream of doors. We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants. But will they believe us about the UFOs? |
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THE DESERT'S PURPOSE: by Wayan; 1996/11/19, a philosophical dream. I'm in the bed of a pickup truck crossing Sonora, insisting to a farmworker "Deserts have spiritual value..." |
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EIGHT TO A HORN: by Wayan; 1986/4/25, a magical dream, Chapter 7 of UNICORN TAG. In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag... |
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GIRDERS AND DUST: by Wayan; dreamed 1983/10/23; acrylic wash on Xerox. . I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived... |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
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HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, a wild dream epic. I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
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KIDS' WORLD: by Wayan; 1996/8/2, a dream on solitude. The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave? |
| LINES COMPOSED IN SLEEP: by Owen Meredith; before 1887; a Kubla-Khanlike poem-fragment I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but... |
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THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened... |
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MARS REBORN: by Wayan; 1MB, 27 photos, 15 pp, 2003/9/22, a sculpture, a tour guide, a virtual world Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos... |
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MIRIEL, DON'T GO IN!: by Wayan; 1982/10/6, a dream of a petty god. God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 300K, 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
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NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; (Aug?) 1971; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil A sketch I made as a kid in a museum, of a Navaho painting of horses who got me hot... |
| 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 |
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OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it’s been true... |
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OISIN: by Wayan; 200K, 2005, 4 maps and images; a nondream virtual world A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas... |
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ORE PIRATES, by Wayan, 2009/5/29; a dream-poem, Dreamverse #45 I'm in prehistoric Baja mining nuggets that howl, when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in to snatch our ore... |
| POKING THROUGH THE NET: by Wayan; 1993/8/6, a dream on evading repression. Cult members must wear a chadoor, and daily confess their sins. So why's their beach such a pickup scene? |
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PONYBOY: by Wayan; 140K total, felt pen, acrylic, ink, illustrating a 1982/12/9 dream. The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching... |
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SAINT BRIDGET: by Jenny Badger Sultan; between 1963-68, a dream on adversity's uses. In a Scythian church, a painting says "Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"... |
| SHELL AND STONE: by William Wordsworth; late 1840s, a dream of a new Great Flood An Arab shows me a stone he calls a book, and a shell that speaks prophecies of the flood rushing toward us over the desert... |
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SIPHONIA: by Wayan; 1MB, 25 p, 2006, a nondream virtual world, in progress; maps, tours First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters... |
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SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale. My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet... |
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SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain... |
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SOUTHWEST SHAMANS: by Wayan; felt pen, 1971; childhood mythical drawing Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life... |
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SWALLOWS OF FOUR CORNERS: by Wayan, (Aug?) 1971, a childhood visionary feltpen drawing Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew... |
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TAROT: THE WINGED COYOTE (Freedom! No suit. No rank.): by Wayan; tarot card from a dream, 1979/3/14. I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon... |
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THARN: by Wayan; 8.3MB (45 p, 200+ ill.), 2006, a nondream virtual world: maps, photos, portraits, tours Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE |
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TICHANE: by Wayan; 1993-4. Nondream digital "woodblock print". What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me... |
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TRAIL OF POGS: by Wayan; 2002/9/6, my dreams' response to the first Burning Man dream-workshop A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us... |
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TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002?. A nightmare of losing your best friends to love... We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until... |
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WASTE: by Wayan; 100K, 1990/5/15, a desert singles poem, 11 images. A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters... |
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