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SUBLIMINAL IMAGES

Some dreams pick up subliminal images and put them in the foreground so you'll notice how they're affecting you... It happens in the art process too... you don't realize what you've really drawn till it's done, or maybe not even then--it hangs on the wall a year before you stop in shock one day...

On the other hand, I have to admit that I'm not subtle. When you're dealing with inherently complex subjects (dreams are) it seems wise to be direct, to keep things clear and obvious. But in trying to stick to the obvious, I think I overlook a lot of subtleties...

I suspect a lot more visual puns and subliminal images lurk in my art. But, in a hurry to prep it all for this site, I haven't caught many yet. This is a new list, under construction, so email me if you find subliminal images that might belong here.

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AGASSIZ’S FISH: by Louis Agassiz, ca. 1840: subliminal, psychic, or just a great guess?
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 120K, 1990/3/27, an illustrated nightmare-farce.
My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that...
ARCH: by Wayan; 120K, dreamed 1998/8/10, painted 1999, acrylic on wood .
I dreamed that as a kid I found two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all...
CAUTION: SEX
ARCHANGEL: by Wayan; 1997/10/19, a dream-farce--or is it?
Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch?
CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT
THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 125K, 1996/4/2 dream illustrated by sculpture, 2000.
VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more...
CAUTION: SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE AND QUITE EMBARRASSED ABOUT IT
DALI SKETCH: by Wayan; 1983/12/12; a surrealist nightmare.
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
DATE GHOST: by Wayan; dreamed 1985? (exact date uncertain); acrylic.
I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings?
CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
ENJOY LIFE: by Wayan; 1988; digital painting based on 1983/8/24 dream
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic.
I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human.
I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right...
If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
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...
THE MUSICAL AMOEBA, by Hermester Barrington, spring 1979, a possibly predictive dream inspired by The Incredible String Band
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
NOT THREE!: by Wayan; 1996/11/11, an encouraging nightmare
I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1997? digital; map of the dreamworld.
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
STRETCH NOW!: by Wayan; 1993? Digital reminder to stretch.
Do it now! I'm doing it. I'm getting up from the keyboard and stretching. I am a cheetah...


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