A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice and men...
CAUTION: CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
Tour beautiful, bizarre worlds most exobiologists would write off as hopeless for life, and meet the natives...
CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it.
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
I painted this upside down, with a mouse, then flipped it to see what I'd done...
Who sculpts landscape? So I tried a crag with a pool in a hollow on its knee, windows like red eyes...
My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike...
My father is supposed to speak, but he falls asleep onstage. I rush up to try and rouse him, but...
Each morning when I wake, I write one dream as a poem. What’ll emerge by the hundredth day?
I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
Money, power, race and gender don't stifle my friends who work as much as hierarchical structure...
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless...
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
Early Euro and Indian art liked bilateral symmetry; old Japan liked careful asymmetry. I like self-similarity.
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...
I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog...
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila!
At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger...
I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse...
CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with...
CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
As we climb down the steep mountainside, clutching bushes to keep from falling, I ask Laura "Do you want another child?"
I visit a friend's ramshackle cottage--trees grow through the walls. But glorious meadows! Spring at last...
Four versions of an undersea meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX
Okay, you got your heaven, and your earth, and between, you got...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
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!
It's Thanksgiving but my brother won't come in; he's digging up red earth. In our family he always digs up...
You get 26 dice with letters on every face. Roll them all. Your haiku must use every letter. Go!
I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get...
CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS
I see two gorillas in the field. One waves at me and approaches. I feel excited but a little scared...
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I feel envy--until I consider what angel wings can imply...
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
After teaching a class on color, I had a set of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
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