Abstraction
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| | ARTSHOW IN A DREAM: by Wayan; 1983/9/18, a dream poem with 3 illustrations A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art... |
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A BIG WET KISS TO YOU, TOO: by Wayan, 1999, 280K; a dreamlike ceramic. My abstract sculpture just got fishier and fishier, til it grew these big red lips... |
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COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 51K; nondream digital painting, 1998. Coyote invades an abstract painting and reveals why the art biz likes conceptual, impersonal art... |
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CRYSTAL WAVES: by Wayan; 1990. Digital sketch of music-trance. How Bach sounded to me after seeing Fantasia... |
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CUTTLEBONE: by Wayan; 1999, sculpture, 7", plaster/acrylic; a nondream improv. If you can't tell what it is from the thumbnail, cheer up. It's indescribable full-size, too. |
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THE DOUBT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, an undream trance-painting Painting an abstract watercolor, I drifted into trance, and found myself climbing a thorny slope. Had I gone wrong? |
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FIGHTING A VIRUS: by Wayan, 1998/11/21, a diagnostic nightmare. Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN... |
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FRACTAL: by Wayan; fractal painting, 1990? Early Euro and Indian art liked bilateral symmetry; old Japan liked careful asymmetry. I like self-similarity. |
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GALAXY FLOWER: by Wayan; 1993. digital painting of a (nondream) vision.
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers... |
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MAMMAL FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital painting on recurring dream situation. Since I dream I'm an animal a lot (or I'm an animal that wakes to find it's human a lot) hands fascinate me... |
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TRIBUTE TO JOAN MIRO: by Wayan; 1984/2000. Erasable crayon, 14 x 17", nondream Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose. |
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THE RED THING: by Wayan; 1998. Digital portrait of a song. You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow? |
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SAX: by Wayan; 300K total, 8 pp, 1991/5/31, a digital comic--a true story. Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window... CAUTION: SEX AND SAX |
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SPARK OF THE DIVINE: by Carla Young, 2010/2/2; painting of a brief oracular dream A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"... |
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SQUIGGLE BIRD: by Wayan; 480 x 640, 1997. Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story... |
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THE STONE THE BUILDER REJECTED: by Wayan; 1999; plaster sculpture ca. 9" across. I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world... |
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TANGUY: by Wayan; 1963-4, childhood surrealist drawing. 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... |
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TAROT: CHAOS: by Wayan; 36K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. The card of big messes, confused beginnings--and fertilization... |
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TAROT: THE MAZE: by Wayan; 32K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. When you start thinking and scheming hard, you can end up "amazed": lost in a maze of choices... |
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TOPOGRAPHY OF EXCESS: by Wayan; 1997. Digital painting on digital painting. They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation... |
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TWISTED!: by Wayan; 510K, 2003/6/23, 18 images; a nondream experiment I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get... CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS |
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UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted essay on... wishes? An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART |
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WARRING MOIRES: by Wayan; 1988. Abstract nondream digital picture-poem-thingy Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield... |
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WIRES: by Wayan; 1957-1963, a recurrent childhood nightmare resolved by drawing, Dec 1999 I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION |
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A WORK OF ART: by Carla Young, early 1970s; dream painting and story I'm to be beheaded. Guards chant "It's important to enjoy what you're doing." I know my spilled blood will create a work of art... |
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YELLOWBALL ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 2001. Ink tinted digitally. Dream image unrecognized at first! Another lie from those fiendish abstractionists. Turns out it's not a yellow ball at all... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 104K, 600 x 640, 1999. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?
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