Art Sampler, A-K
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THE AIR BURUNDI PAINTINGS: by Wayan; 7 illus., 2007/1/20, a dream of art & courage Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake. Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition. |
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
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BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4' My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO! |
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BERNAL ISLET IN 2250: by Wayan; 2007/4/2, an epic undream painting My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island... CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA |
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BLUE MER-ANGEL: by Wayan; 2000, ceramic sculpture, 11.5" long. Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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BLUE SKIES: by Georganna Malloff; 1980?, painting of a slightly predictive dream. I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a concert I was surprised to see that the cellist... |
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BONK VERONICA: by Wayan; 1997/4/1, 9-page dream-comic on body image The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by... CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT |
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BOY BODY: by Wayan; recurring dream 1959-62, a comic on body image. Or illus. text version A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes. CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA |
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THE CAMBODIAN GIRL: by Wayan; 1996/4/2 dream, sculpted 1998/11/9. VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more... CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA |
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CATRISE: by Wayan; 2000/2/21, a sexy flying dream; acrylic painting. I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly... CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY |
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CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams. Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why... |
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CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova... CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES |
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CENTAUR AND STAR: by Wayan; 1994; digital portrait of recurring dream figure I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams... CAUTION: BREASTS |
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CENTAUR QUARTET: by Wayan; 1982/2/26, 83/12/24 & 84/10/16, recurring dreams of my spirit family. Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL |
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THE CIRCUS HUMANS' DESERTION: by Wayan; 1988/2/19; an epic 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--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says... |
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CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002. I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach... CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES |
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CLIMB DOWN THE PINNACLES: by Jenny Badger Sultan, l995/12/24, a surreal dream and painting Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm? |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
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COSMIC MAYPOLE: by Georganna Malloff; 1976-80s, dream-based drawings and totem poles I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream... |
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COYOTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 2000/1/3, sculpture of dream figure. A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating. |
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DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/28, a revisionist Christmas dream The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: DEER-MOM BREASTS |
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DRAGON ME: by Preston Young and Katie Hofgard; 2005/2/14? a collaborative dream-portrait. Preston dreams he's a dragon and his girlfriend Katie drew his portrait from his account |
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THE DREAM: dreamed by Yadwigha, painted by Henri Rousseau; 1910, collaborative dream art Rousseau's painting of a woman on a red sofa in a glorious jungle really was dream-based--just not his dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING |
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DUBIA: by Wayan; summer 2003, a nondream sculpture/prophecy/travelog. What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles... CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR |
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ELF EYE: by Wayan; 2002/5/20, dream figure in acrylic on wood A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us... |
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ELVEN DANCER: by Wayan; 1999, 14" mixed-media sculpture of waking fantasy. I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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ERECTION 2000: by Wayan, 2000/11/28; ceramic sculpture 9" tall; response to stolen 2000 election. A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to... CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE |
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THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag. In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust? |
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FASHION SHOOT: by Wayan, 2000/11/30; nondream ceramic sculpture 10.5" long. Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIND SOMEONE SPIRITUAL, STUPID!: 1996/9/5, by Wayan; dream-figure, clay, 9" tall A sculpted reminder I hung over my desk like Clinton's sign "It's The Economy, Stupid!"... CAUTION: NUDITY, PRESIDENTIAL MOCKERY |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--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. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a 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... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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FLOWERING:: by Wayan; 1996, pencil digitally tinted; nondream portraits. Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last... CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE |
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FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET |
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FRANCHISE!: by Wayan, 1995/10/12, a dream-comic (ill. text ed.) with a serious warning. I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise... CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES |
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GOLD EATER: by Wayan; 1993/1/15 dream drawn as 9-page comic. I'm an orphan shapeshifter enslaved by a gold-eating monster. But I meet a cat-girl with a hammer... CAUTION: BAD FOSTER-DAD; CAPITALIST MONSTER; VIOLENCE (TO VENDING MACHINES) |
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A GOLDEN KEY IN A CHEAP LIGHT: by Wayan; 1996/7/9, a subtle dream lesson I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone... CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS |
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GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth. |
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THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
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HICKOPHOBIA: by Wayan; 1996/5/13; 2-page dream-comix (or plain text version) Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HOMAGE TO CAMILLE: by Wayan, spring 2003. Portrait of a half an anima A portrait of my dream-friend Silky, using a technique learned from artist Camille Porter. |
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I GOT OUT: by Wayan; 1992/1/4, a psychic dream drawn as a 9-page digital comic I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have my escape all planned: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves... CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY |
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I HELD THE SUN ROSE: by Wayan; 1989/6/18; digital painting inspiring a dream inspiring a 2nd painting. After I drew this I dreamed I was chasing stars with a long-tailed friend, and in the end we caught the Sun... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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IF YOUR HEART IS BEAT: by Wayan; 1989/6/30. Nondream digital graffiti-picture-poem. When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm! |
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INACTION PAINTING: by Wayan; 1995/10/29, digital dream-figure collage When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES |
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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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JAREDIA: by Wayan; 770K, 26 illus, early 2003, a nondream sculpture/photoessay/travelog. I tilted the Earth to create a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica? |
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KARMA AND HER SISTERS: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/27, a sexy dream that turns tragic. One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later… CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS |
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KIBBLE FROM HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1986/10/13, a dream on love and money. I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels... CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS |
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KIOSK: by Wayan; 1994/5/1, a 4-page dreamcomic on the power of song (or illustrated text version) I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk... CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION |
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KORE: by Ann McCoy; 1986, a dream of the Goddess inspires an epic drawing My guide to the archeological site was veiled, but soon she revealed her scales and gills. A little girl led a procession in, to reconsecrate the Temple of Isis... |
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THE KRELKIN SISTERS ON MISSION ST: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, a dream of superior beings I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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