ART EXPERIMENTS
RELATED TOPICS: artists and the arts - the creative process - Round & strange-shaped art - Web comics - picture-poems - printed books and comics including the DREAMTALES series - paintings - pure digital art - watercolor - crayon and pastel - pencil - ink drawings - felt pen - graffiti and tag-style art - woodblock prints (mostly digital fakes, I confess) - sculpture - juvenilia: earliest art - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ABYSSIA: by Wayan; started 2006/6/6, a webtour of an inverted world A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents... |
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ALICE'S POEM: by Lewis Carroll; 1872, a poem on dreams Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-shards, wasn't so sure... |
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ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH M: by Wayan; 1995. Collaged dream images A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice & men... CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS |
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AMAZEMENT PARK: by Stan Van Der Beek; 1980/12/30, a dream-proposal for a huge art installation The "Amazement Park", as I dubbed it, was a building long as a football field and three floors high; you fly, suspended, round an oval track, through a galaxy of images teaching that "sharing" is what matters... |
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AMERICAN FLAG: by Jasper Johns, 1954; a career-changing dream Johns dreamt he was painting an American flag. He woke, and did-- mixing pigment and beeswax, coating newspaper strips... |
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AVERELL'S FLIGHT: by Sue Averell, 2005, paintings based on flying dreams Action-painting cityscapes, but seen from far above--in flight. But she keeps herself out of the picture, so you'd never guess, unless... |
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BAD DREAM BOOK: by Jim Shaw; late 1994?, a dream calling his dream art lame I show a friend my book of dream-art, but it's half-baked and embarrassing. I'm no good at smuggling guns, porn or cash through customs, either... CAUTION: LOW-RES SMUT IN THAT BOOK |
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BELIEF IS GRIEF: by Wayan; 1992/7/31. A two-page picture-poem Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice. |
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BIG FLAMING AIRPLANES TRYING TO LAND: by Jack Kerouac, late Oct. 1953, a double nightmare Two DC-6s catch burn over New York. Me? I'm a naked child in a Babylonian temple in Jersey... |
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THE BIOSPHERE VARIATIONS: by Wayan; 2004-, sculpture-photo-drawing-travelog-webtours: Tour bizarre worlds most exobiologists would dismiss as hopeless for life--and meet the natives... CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION |
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BLACKGROUND: by Wayan; 2023/3/14-4/4, a booklet of improv paintings on dreamwork Inspired by Lynda Barry, I fill a black-paged book with 20 improv paintings. They grow into a tour of my dreamwork led my anima Silky, a nightmare... |
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BOX OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007 to 2009, a boxed set of 19 small dream-paintings A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia... |
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CENTAUR CIRCLES: by Wayan; 1991. Early digital painting of dream figure An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it. |
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CIDER AND WINE: by Wayan; 1974/10/24, surreal undream Aspie reporting Our writing class meets in this Victorian home. I turn off my filters and describe what I really see around me... |
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CIGAR: by Julie Doucet, 2017 or '18, a surreal dream cartooned bottom to top I meet a dancer who plays a stick figure on stage. She smokes a cigar. I ask her how many a day she smokes, and she answers... |
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CLOCKMAN HEDGEHOG: by Wayan; 1992/10/5; digital sketch of being rejected by my own sex fantasy! I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman... CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR |
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COLUMBIA UPSIDE DOWN: by Wayan; 1989/4/7, tweaked 1992. Dream-tinged landscape. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has a challenge--draw an image upside down. Better or worse? So I drew this with a mouse, then flipped it and found... |
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COMICS & DREAMJOURNAL: by Rick Veitch, Jan 1974, a life-path dream I'm trying to jam together my dream diary and my first comics. My grandmother's skeptical. But at last, with an audible 'click', dreams and comics suddenly merge... |
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CRAG: by Wayan; 1999/12/9; 12" sculpture of a daydream. Who sculpts landscape? So I tried a crag with a pool in a hollow on its knee, windows like red eyes... |
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CRAYON NAIAD: by Wayan; 1994, nondream art experiment My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike... |
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CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cute cartoon universe! Worse, to judge this beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls... |
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D, D, D: by Wayan; 1988/2/1, trance-poem during automatic writing (done to rewire my brain) I always wrote some letters strangely--my 'd' was nearly illegible. So I set out to retrain my deep motor skills... |
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DAD FALLS ASLEEP AT THE PODIUM: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/3/8; painting in the Box of Dreams My father is supposed to speak, but he falls asleep onstage. I rush up to try and rouse him, but... |
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DESTRUCTION OF THE NIGHTMARE TOWERS: by Dustin Shuler; c.1955-1965, recurrent nightmare made performance art As a kid, when I had a fever I always had the same nightmare: a high brick or stone wall shaking apart, faster and faster. This scared me very much. Finally, in my teens, I... |
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DOCTOR VENTRIL: by Wayan; 1978/9/22, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA |
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DREAMVERSES: by Wayan; Aug-Dec? 2008, a dream-poem experiment Each morning when I wake, I write one dream as a poem. What’ll emerge by the hundredth day? |
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DUCK!: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/6/5, digital painting 1988 I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia... CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM |
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EVIL ARCHY: by Wayan; April 2008; a non-dream poem in terze rima Money, power, race and gender stifle my working friends less than hierarchical structures... |
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EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, trance-drawing experiment with surprise advice I turned off my conscious judgment and just drew. Two paths appeared--one led to psychodrama, then parental prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork... CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES |
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EYE AND I by Wayan; 1999/11/15, a drawing that shifts me into a new way of seeing I met a colorblind artist with an amazing grayscale sense. He inspire me to draw a huge eye full of abstract shapes in gray, trying to see his way... |
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FALL AT THE RIGHT SIZE: by Wayan; 2018/7/14, a dream shape-poem on a lifesaving indecision. I fall off a tower, but I can change size. Tiny things fall slower, but they also tempt the local falcons! Be big & hit hard, or tiny & be eaten? There's a third choice, but I sorta fell into it... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE REACHES UP: by Wayan; 1995/5/15. Crayon figure study. From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold! CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: REDHEAD SITS IN DIAMOND: by Wayan, 1999/5/12, acrylic figure-study A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick... CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA... |
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A FIRE ENTIRELY WITHOUT HEAT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/9/11; painting in the Box of Dreams On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless... |
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FIVE BLUNT TEETH: by Wayan; 2011/2/17, a biting nondream shape-poem I read The Best American Poetry, 2007, but it just isn't, and I find myself writing a Savage Poetic Response... |
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FLAMINGOS: by Wayan; 1998/3/30; nondream acrylic, 20 x 30". Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait... |
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FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX |
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FOX-SHEPHERDESS AND RAVEN: by Wayan; 1998 wet-on-wet acrylic of daydream, 1999/11/29. I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things... |
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FOX STORM: by Wayan; fractal painting of dream (date lost, but pre-1998/8/11) I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me... |
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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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FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005 I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too. So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek... |
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FROG: by Wayan; 120K, 2000/4/19, a narrative digital picture-poem I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog... |
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GABORS: by Jack Kerouac, late Jan. 1954, a dream of celebrity delusion Starlets Zaza and Eva Gabor grow old shopping, smiling, covering their fears, until... |
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THE GRALA: by Eugene Jolas, c. 1934, a nightmare written as a surreal prose-poem I was having dinner with friends when I saw on the wall a huge skullbone spider. But I lost the word for spider, and my friends seemed not to see it... |
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GRIFFIN: by Wayan; 1995/8/2, digital portrait of two dream-selves. Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes... |
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GURU GUTS: by Wayan; 1989/4/12, digital sketch of my perceptual world. If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila! |
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HANK AND THE BENGAL TIGER: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/27; painting in the Box of Dreams At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger... |
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I DIDN’T DIVE IN: by Herbert Read; before 1938, a dream-poem experiment. I watched her dive into the lake... and fail to come up. Her golden cloak floated on the water. I hesitated just a moment, and... |
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I DREAM OF DERIVERRANS: by Wayan; 1982/11/16, a Joycean dream of surrender. I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse... CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE |
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I'LL TRY: by Wayan; 1990/7/5. Experiment: dream sketch to video to digital picture-poem. An early self-portrait rebelling against my gender and trying on beauty to see what'd change... |
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INDIANS OCCUPY DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 2012/8/31; a dream of biased art I try to correct An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs. But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING |
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IRONY: by Wayan; 2007/6/15. A vertical comicstrip burned into (naturally) an ironing board I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with... CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE |
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JEAN ARP'S OCTOPUS: by Wayan; 2001/2/26; a surreal dream of my surreal reaction to a surrealist and his... lunch A library shows me surrealist Jean Arp's sketchbook. One Eschery sketch with repeated focal points is hypnotic. But they also show me his lunch, and I try to eat it! I fail. Head & gut disagree. Stuck Arp-way... CAUTION: NEVER EAT 12-YEAR-OLD SUSHI |
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KITSUNE (FOX-GIRL) BY MOONLIGHT: by Wayan; 2002/5/1 dream prompting a paint experiment In a Japanese house I met a charming red-headed girl and had this weird urge to scratch her pointed ears. Oh! She's a kitsune!... |
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LAKOTA TRAINSCAPES: by Wayan; 2018/10/30, art seen in an anti-lucid dream In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right? CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS! |
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LAURA: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/10/24; painting in the Box of Dreams As we climb down the steep mountainside, clutching bushes to keep from falling, I ask Laura "Do you want another child?" |
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THE LAST WORD: by Larry Vigon; 2001/12/5; a wistful apocalyptic dream A huge explosion knocked the earth off its orbit; it struck other planets and wrecked the whole solar system. Where will the souls ready to reincarnate all go? Or do they even need a planet?... |
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LITTLE BAD DREAM CHARM: by Kathy Fagan; 2001? A slip-filled dream-poem Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too... |
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LITTLE BROWN RABBITS IN THE MEADOW: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/3/20; painting in the Box of Dreams I visit a friend's ramshackle cottage--trees grow through the walls. But glorious meadows! Spring at last... |
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MARY MCBRIDE AND THE SPIRITUAL EARTH MOVEMENT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2011/11/26, dream of a kindred artist I met a woman whose art (and her love for the Earth) inspired me to start a series of paintings with creatures hidden in landscapes... |
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THE MERMAN'S LOVER: by Wayan; 1991-93; a sex daydream treated four ways. Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine... CAUTION: ORAL SEX |
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MERRY WITCHMAS!: by Wayan; 1990/12/22. Digital dreamy image Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night... |
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MESOPOTAMIAN ARMORY: by Wayan, 2008/8/6, a shape-poem based on a dream An ancient Mesopotamian city learned to make catapult-bombs of powdered manure. But excessive stockpiles & bad housekeeping led to Armageddung... CAUTION: BABEL-MYTH DEBASED |
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MOVING IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MY DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes... |
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MYSTERY BETWEEN: by Wayan; 1985/9/27, crayon and acrylic drawing on dreamnesia. Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got... CAUTION: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE |
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NICHE: by Wayan; 1990/5/9, a nondream poem on new art media, or crashing your computer. Same thing. A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras... CAUTION: IDEAS |
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NOCTURNE: by Wayan; 2023/9/20, a book of improv paintings on dreams Inspired by Shaun Tan, I fill a black-paged photo album with 36 improv paintings. They become a tour of my dreamworld, led by my anima Silky, a literal nightmare... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, WEIRD DREAM IDEAS |
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ODE TO NOT WRITING ODES: by Wayan; 2019/7/17; a nondream non-ode In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch... |
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OFF DOVER: by Wayan; 2010/9/30, a dream-based mini-sestina (poetic experiment) I'm biking over the English Channel. So mild & easy after the Greenland-to-New-York run... |
OVERLAY: by Wayan; 1984/2/11, 1995/8/26, and 2004/9/11, 3 dreams shape a 9-page comic on living with ESP |
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours... |
PALAIS IDÉAL: by Ferdinand Cheval; dreamed 1864, built 1879-1912, a life-defining dream |
I dreamed I built a palace, but for fifteen years I kept silent, ashamed. Then I tripped over a beautiful stone. I took it home. Next day I collected more... |
PEGASIA: by Wayan; 10MB mini-site (200 maps & images), spring 2006 to present (ongoing); tours of an alien moon. |
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one! |
PENTALEMMA: by Wayan; 2002/3/10 to 2006/5/1?, a 13-page nondream improv-comic on deep goals |
Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields. Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires... CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL) |
PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits |
I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
PIE HOLE: by Wayan; 2021/9/12, an Emperor's New Clothes dream with a twist |
I'm shyly making love with a classmate, Cynthia. Classmates gawk & point, through the pie-hole in the ceiling. But our perspective reveals that under our critics' skirts... CAUTION: UPSKIRT NUDITY |
POLYGON DREAMS: by Wayan; 2007/4/23, a 32-page comic on the effects of shapes |
What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles, pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out... CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE |
THE POWER OF ART: by Wayan; 2016/8/29, a dream-poem about the longtern effect of dreamwork? |
At a museum, a weird art project shows me how observing and documenting life in art can improve that life--just from being taken seriously... |
REELS OF LIGHT PROPEL THE MOON: by Wayan; 2000/11/17; ink/digital sketch of the dream-voyage. |
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams... |
ROBERT’S PLAN: by William Blake; late 1788; an advisory dream... |
Blake was broke. Couldn’t typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience. But in a dream, his brother advised him... |
THE SATURATION DIAL: by Wayan; 2015/11/7, a surreal lucid dream with a control knob! |
Night. Two moons. I go lucid! Find a knob adjusting the dream's color saturation. Dial it up--and meet ghosts of pure color, invisible til I luridified... |
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 2000/1/23; portrait of recurring dream self. |
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it... |
THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. |
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar... |
SILKY'S WOODCUTS: by Wayan, 2006/12/15, an art-prompt dream with spiritual overtones |
I dreamed I'd made a set of woodblock prints showing a scene from varied times & angles: my anima Silky, part girl part mare, contemplates another set of prints--famous Zen ones... |
SIX AND A HALF EXPERTS VIEW THE BEAST: by Wayan; 2018/12/11-2019/1/31 |
(a poem answering Wallace Stevens's 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) As the beast in question (and recalling the fable Six Blind Men and the Elephant) I don't mind letting six half-blind humans have their say--as long as I get my own... CAUTION: UNICORNS |
SNAKE PACKAGE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/5/27 |
I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life... CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! |
SPEAKING ABOUT ART WITH THE AFRICAN BEINGS: |
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/1/19, a dream-painting of a dream about dream-painting! I'm teaching an art class full of strange masklike beings. We debate art as spontaneous process, versus art as planned product... |
SPIRIT FACE: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1988/4/25 dream of a huge art project |
I'm at the beach, collecting stones to make a gigantic face viewable only from the air... |
THREE HORSE MARSH: by Wayan; 1983/9/27. Acrylic triptych, each panel 18 x 24", group ca. 2x5' |
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style... |
TILT THE GLOBE TO MAXIMIZE BIOMASS: by Wayan, |
1987/8/15, 1990/3/31 & 6/10, 1993/8/10, four dreams prompting Planetocopia I dreamed I took a globe off its stand, drilled new poles, and put it back on tilted, so that most continents are greener; Tokyo, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego are now all tropical... Over a decade later, dreams forgotten, I start what I think is a nondream art project, by tilting... |
TONY DIGS THE RED EARTH: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/2/23; painting in the Box of Dreams |
It's Thanksgiving but my brother won't come in; he's digging up red earth. In our family he always digs up... |
TRISKELION: by Kristopher Saknussemm, c.1986, a surreal false-waking dream |
Only up close do I see that the map of these mysterious continents is made of moths. I wake in Polynesia. By the bed, in a jar, floats one of my hands. For no reason, I begin to cry... |
24 FRAMES A MINUTE: by Wayan, 2023/3/16, an undream comix improv |
Twenty-four panels of improvised comics in unerasable ink, letting the shapes and themes in each panel suggest the next... |
TWENTY-SIX LETTERS, or, A Complete Summary of Poesy; by Cory & Wayan, early Aug. 1992; a haiku slam | You get 26 dice with letters on every face. Roll them all. Your haiku must use every letter. Go! |
TWISTED!: by Wayan; 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 |
TWO GORILLAS IN THE FIELD: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/12/5; painting in the Box of Dreams |
I see two gorillas in the field. One waves at me and approaches. I feel excited but a little scared... |
UNICORN STAIN-GLASS WINDOW: by Wayan; 1983/4/28, subliminal or predictive dream |
The stained-glass unicorns were stunning, sexy... but veiled by a bland, tasteful, flowery inner stained-glass window. 18 months later I saw the dream window... |
UNIVERSITY OF THE SIERRA: by Wayan; 1975/10/30, a pun-studded dream poem |
Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth. But the Ice Age ground the Sierra's granite teeth, and they're lovelier for it... |
THE VACUUM CLEANER QUARTET: by Wayan; 1981, four bizarre poems. |
All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me... |
THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique. |
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between... CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH |
VERITY'S WINGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/8/21; painting in the Box of Dreams |
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply... |
WALRUSHMORE: by Wayan; 1982/1/8; a dream pun with political bite |
In my sister's house I saw a magazine cover showing that famous national monument in the Black Hills: Mt Walrushmore... |
WATERFALL: by Wayan; 1984/12/14, ink blown up via Xerox, with acrylic wash; nondream. |
A stylized waterfall--a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite... |
THE WEB-BIRD LED ME: by Wayan; 1992/8/13; digital sketch previsioning the World Dream Bank? |
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me from my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light... Wait! That can't be right! CAUTION: SEPIA HALFTONE NUDITY |
WIDE FACE: by Wayan; 1992/8/13, digital sketch of hypnogogic image. |
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out... |
WING IT: by Wayan, 1995/12/29-1996/2/14, a 9-page improv comic. |
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions-- no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void! |
WINGVOW: by Wayan; 1994. Digital improv-collage of dream figures |
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..." |
WINTER DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; winter 2004/2005, a painted series of color-dreams. |
After teaching a class on color, I had a series of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting... |
WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self. |
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997/9/3 to 9/18, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. |
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons... CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY |
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