When I was a kid we had a huge photo book of the Southwest titled STANDING UP COUNTRY.

In my early teens I wanted to create a modern equivalent of those cliff dwellings--neither sprawling like the suburbs I lived in or climbing in sterile, sealed towers. I pictured a city of bio-engineered flying people living on a great Sierra crag, with rooms hollowed out of living rock and a thousand feet of hanging little bonsai gardens and terraces.

This is one of my earliest drawings, and I know it shows. But a vision drawn badly is still a vision. One milestone for any artist is not being ashamed of bad incarnations of good ideas...

World Dream Bank homepage - Art gallery - New stuff - Introductory sampler, best dreams, best art - On dreamwork - Books
Indexes: Subject - Author - Date - Names - Places - Art media/styles
Titles: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - IJ - KL - M - NO - PQ - R - Sa-Sh - Si-Sz - T - UV - WXYZ
Email: wdreamb@yahoo.com - Catalog of art, books, CDs - Behind the Curtain: FAQs, bio, site map - Kindred sites