It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS
As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..."
I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming
to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and
my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole...
I was anorexic for years; I only mastered it when I saw it was a hunger for the spirit world...
A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now.
What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
All that spring I dreamed of climbing, cold, fatigue, risk, and fear.
But shamanic training involves toughening; ascent isn't always easy flight...
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes point out the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar.
A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies...
So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?.
CAUTION: NUDITY
I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central
dynamo of our world finally erupting: the Businessman in Anguish.
I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
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
Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...
When I'm confused, this angel comforts me with this MORE confusing quote...
Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art...
Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather?
CAUTION: STUPIDITY
Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muñeca?" and...
CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed
only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs...
A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice...
CAUTION: PHALLUS INVADES PHOTOSHOOT
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
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
In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil...
CAUTION: NUDE POTATO
Long ago I saw a marvelous Hiroshige print of a fox convocation, lit by moon and foxfires...
CAUTION: LESBIAN SPOOKS
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
I was single and tired of kissing frogs. Then I realized--I AM one. Or worse: a pretentious polliwog...
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old
body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror...
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted...
There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat...
CAUTION: NUDE DANCING
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who....
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances
lead to racism & sexism. Only the blind know truth...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, SEVERE IDIOCY
This started as an exercise in dramatic figure-drawing and shifted round into an exorcise in guilt...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL CONFESSIONS
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
An early self-portrait rebelling against my gender and trying on beauty to see what'd change...
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
I'm so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with...
CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
Poem by Emily Dickinson on fighting depression, which I get when my neuroallergies are severe...
What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly...
CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as
an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
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...
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies...
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
An early piece about Matisse, and his models, and quilting, and disembodied heads...
An elegy to a great paper-cutter, and three (or was it four?) sado-humorists who still scare me a little...
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God...
CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
If you sense auras, every singles event feels like a scene from Halloween Hell...
CAUTION: HORNY MONSTERS
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. Here are the ones I've met and been in dreams.
But you all forget your dreams. Don't be too sure you're so unitary...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again...
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child.
Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life...
I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but...
CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM
Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea's head?
Osento is a bath house that my friends all love. But women only. So I dream I change sex just to...
CAUTION: NUDITY, GRATUITOUS HAPPINESS
Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right?
Sexual beauty scares me--how I'm affected--how vulnerable I am. An irresistable pheromone...
CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch..
CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive...
CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED?
I dreamed our family's black cat Persephone had to make a life-decision...
I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered...
CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got...
CAUTION: SEX
Blake was broke. Couldn’t typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience.
But in a dream, his brother advised him...
A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands...
I was a robot who had a soul--till the Reagans stole it! I track them down, and
demand it back. Simply confronting them works--the hole inside me is filled...
CAUTION: CAUSTIC POLITICS
I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but...
CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being
a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions.
Painful questions...
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in
stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
I squabble with my body so much! But now & then, in orgasm, we dissolve into stars and become...
CAUTION: SEX POETRY
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
I've been meeting, talking with, and turning into unicorns in my dreams these last few years...
CAUTION: ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you...
CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney...
CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation...
Evicted. Lawsuit. I dream a lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In East Asia, foxes
mean trouble, but these are friendly--good news is coming! I wake to find we've won a home...
I try to make beauty, try to be beauty, but all the while, this voice keeps snickering...
The 80s were rough on unicorns, but now that they're passé again, they can get back to work...
"I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence...
CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays...
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts
and long lazy rests. If I start acting human, I overwork...
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
Seeking a mate? Mutual attraction and having much in common aren't enough--
it's equally vital to learn what you don't have in common...
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
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
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next.
But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?