William Butler Yeats, 20th Century poet, statesman, visionary, and researcher of dreams and ESP. His work infuses my dreams, sometimes cropping up peripherally, as in Fishergirls, sometimes centrally, as in the poem Yeats or The Circus Human's Desertion, sometimes ambiguously, as in Thief of Dreams, where Count Coyote seems to be a disguised version of Yeats himself...
RELATED TOPICS: Carl Jung, a contemporary closet shaman - Sigmund Freud, a more reductionist contemporary dreamer - Robinson Jeffers, a curiously parallel visionary poet - Emily Dickinson, another poet sneaking into my dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ANNUNCIATION TO THE SPHINX: by Wayan; 1995, digital painting of nondream vision. I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw... |
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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... |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 180K, 14 images, 1988/2/19, a holy dream. I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsily, lonely. Then a herald returns from the West! Donald Duck... |
| DURING DREAM-DROUGHT: by Wayan; 1997/5/7, a journal exerpt. Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction... |
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| 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 |
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| HITLER'S CAR: by Wayan; 1982/6/9, I review a creepy book. And then my dreams review ME. A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream... CAUTION: RABID RANTING |
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MULTIPLEX: by Wayan; 1987/1/9, a dream on multiple dreamselves. Inside my brain's a fractured legislature--a hive-mind where all de beez disagreez... |
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PICARDIAN ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a dream of time and wishes. I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy... |
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PICARD'S ANGELS: by Wayan; 1993/1/7, a poem; alternate treatment of the dream PICARDIAN ANGELS As a boy on Martinique, Jean-Luc Picard wished for so much so hard, his angels have to work overtime... |
| ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a little shamanic shoptalk Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters... CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED |
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TAROT: (THE CHARISMATIC) LIZARD: by Wayan; 29K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well... |
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THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT: by Wayan; 1990. Digital sketch of astral scene I keep getting in When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle. |
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WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a... |
| YEATS: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, a poem wrestling with Yeats's visions. Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted? |
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