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ASHES, ASHES: by Wayan; 1996/1/29, nondream digital sketch. Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down... |
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BAD NOSE: by Wayan; 1990/10/1; digital painting of life as a psychic dreamer Having psychic dreams is awkward. People bite you for seeing their secrets... |
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BATMAN'S LOVE: by Wayan; 1996/3/26, a dream-epic of love and time. A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)... CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY |
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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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BODIES DIFFER: by Wayan; 1991? Nondream digital picture-poem summing up a life. Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies... |
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BODY MESS: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, 3x5" surreal nondream sketch. If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with flesh?... CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME |
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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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COYOTE INVADES ABSTRACTION: by Wayan; 1989/8/24, reworked 1998/7/26, nondream digital painting. Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art... |
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CROSS THE BLACK RIVER ONE DEATH AT A TIME: by Wayan; 1990? Astral landscape Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily... |
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CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks... |
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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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DEER SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1981, 9x12" faux cave-rubbing. Partly based on the ancient cave painting "Le Sorcier", but here it may be the deer putting on human guise... |
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DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT... |
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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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E PLURIBUS UNUM: by Wayan; 1998/8/13. Digital painting of allegorical orgy America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot... CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS |
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FIGURE DRAWING: NOW HOLD THAT POSE: by Wayan; 1989/11/14 digital sketch of model clowning. Shasé liked absurd, impossible poses, and she held them heroically... CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY |
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FIRE IN THE BELLY: by Wayan; mid 1990s crayon of (nondream) vision I have 'fire in the belly', so I cheer up--if the magazines are right, I'll be President. But it's just bad food... CAUTION: BELLYACHING |
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FOSSIL BARBIE: by Wayan; 1978/9/27; a dream of non-teamwork. I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil... CAUTION: NUDE POTATO |
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FRAGMENTATION: by Wayan; 1990? Digital drawing on digital drawing. The first thing any beginner does with a paint program is behead someone. Why? CAUTION: PAINFUL SPLINTERS |
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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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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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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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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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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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JUST SAY NOSE: by Wayan; 1989, nondream digital poster-poem-rant. What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly... CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB |
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KICK AUTHORITY: by Wayan; 1989/10/25. Early digital painting of a dream figure. Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no. |
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KICK HER: by Wayan; 1994/8/9, a gameshow nightmare. I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I... CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL |
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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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LET'S IMPOSE: by Wayan; 1990/7/3. Nondream digital painting. Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world... |
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LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 1980s. Pencil sketch of daydream The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY |
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LIZ: by Wayan; 1992/3/15, digital painting of a daydream. I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals... CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST |
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LURK: by Wayan; digital collage of a year's dreaming, 1995/3/5. There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real... |
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MONSTER PROM: by Wayan; Dec? 1993. How parties look when you see auras. If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell... CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS |
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OR... IS IT YOU?: by Wayan; 1990/2/11 nondream digital painting on marginality. When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were... CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM |
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OUR BEST SONG: by Wayan; 1983/10/25, a decade-long dream of song and flight. The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly... CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE |
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OVERKILL: by Wayan; 1991/11/22. Nondream digital picture-poem-poster. Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right? |
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OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983/3/16, daydream of night being. At the time I didn't even notice the pun... |
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OZETTE ANGEL: by Wayan; 1988/8/23; dream-tinged landscape. West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago... |
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PASSIN' THROUGH: by Wayan; 1991, nondream digital picture Painted to that country song by Leonard Cohen, where Adam, Jesus, Washington, and FDR all get interviewed in their darkest moments, and they all sing "We're only passin' thru..." |
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PATH: by Wayan; figures from 1989/10/12 dreamlet invade a waking landscape. My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed... CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS |
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QUAIL TV: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, shamanic cave drawing. Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV... |
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RADIATE SORROW: by Wayan; 1980s, a daydream poem. The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone... |
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THE ROCKS OF EDEN: by Wayan; 1982/11/28; painting-poem, summing up a life-phase, yet not a dream. A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands... |
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RUM JUNGLE: by Wayan; 1996/1/22, digital painting-poem on dreaming Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember... CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS |
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SAT UP CONFUSED: by Wayan; 1995? Erasable crayon, 8.5 x 11"; self-portrait of waking-up state I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue... |
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SINGULARITIES: by Wayan, 1995/5/18 etc. (recurrent dream); drawn late 1994. Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you? |
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SWIMMER: by Wayan; 1992/4/15, a digital sketch of a daydream. Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye... |
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TACKY IS AN ANGLO IDEA, or, NEW BRACELET!: by Wayan; 1983/6/22. A bilingual undream. I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun... |
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AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT: by Wayan; 1990/11/2. Digital sketch of a San Francisco Samhain scene When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle. |
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VALENTINE: by Wayan; 1989/2/14, a nondream picture-poem A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays... |
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A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992/8/8. Digital picture-poem Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES |
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WARRING MOIRES: by Wayan; 1989/6/29; digital abstract nondream picture-poem Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield... |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats! |
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WE TALK IT OVER IN HIS BRAIN: by Wayan; 1989. Digital portrait of dream characters. My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams... |
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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 |
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WHO WERE THEY?: by Wayan; 1999. Digital sketch of daydream. Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain. |
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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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WOLFWALL: by Wayan; 1994/1/31. Daydream/trance digital drawing Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME |
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YOUR DREAM LIKES YOU: by Wayan; 3 ill., 1991-2007; three maxims from my anima. You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it? |
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ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 1999, a comic astral vision. 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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