Dream art in the style of woodblock prints. Many are digital, not real prints--I put it here if it looked like a woodblock. I'm intrigued by that look--the idea of limited colors and an inherent grain in the medium--it's so much like what we early digital artists (do you remember the 20th century?), had to work with--limited palettes, jaggy pixels. So why not make a virtue of necessity?

But printmaking also reminds of dreamwork. It can be an art, and dreams can intentionally make art (and tell you "Hey stupid, it's art," like Jung's anima--not that he believed her), but both are indirect--the dream is like, say, Hokusai's brush drawing, which then gets carved on a printing block (written in a journal) scrupulously but never perfectly, by an assistant (the conscious mind) who may not understand the master's intent; and it acquires a certain grain inherent in the wood (in the words); and what others see is yet another step removed, a transfer from that block/journal, colored (edited)... With so many steps to distort the data, boldness works best.

Dreaming itself may be private (though I have my doubts just how private: see dream telepathy) but WRITTEN and PAINTED dreams are, in a weird way, cooperative ventures. Not an art form for control freaks!

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	BEAR READ DUNE: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/1/28, painted 10 years later . There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat, a bird, a bear and I guard the astral stair...
	FAIRE DINOSAUR: by Wayan; 1981/5/5. A dream of forbidden love. I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird... CAUTION: DINO ABUSE
	FASCION: by Wayan; 1992. Digital poster on gender A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice... CAUTION: NUDITY AND INTRUSIVE PHALLUS
	HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
	LEONINE TRINITY: by Wayan; 1991/2000. Digital "woodcut" of recurring dream figures. A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate... CAUTION: NUDITY
	A LOST STATION ON THE TOKAIDO: by Wayan; erasable crayon, 1983. A nondream vision. A tribute to Hiroshige's moonlit landscape prints of the lonely roads of old Japan...
	"NOHOR!" YELLED THE NIGHTMARE: by Wayan; 1982/12/27, a passionate nightmare. I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but... CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
	PEGASUS: by Wayan; 1991. Digital "woodblock print" of recurring dreamfigure. This strong slender mare is how most of my flying dreamhorses look: a practical lot, they know...
	RAGNHILD'S TREE and HALFDAN'S CURLS: by Queen Ragnhild and King Halfdan of Norway; c. 850 AD, twin dreams predicting their children and nation will prosper. Ragnhild sees a lovely tree rooted in her pain and blood; Halfdan sleeps with pigs and dreams he has a great head of hair... CAUTION: KIDNAPPING, ARSON, AND GENERAL BARBARISM (look at the date!)
	RESERVATION FOR BIZARRE AND EXTINCT BEASTS: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2003/9/7; ukiyoe of a dream A futuristic science fiction adventure dream. We rode a feathered, bipedal dinosaur, and got chased by...
	TICHANE: by Wayan; 1993-4. Nondream digital "woodblock print". What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
	WOODCUT: by Wayan; 1997-1999. Digital "woodblock print" of dream-self. Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY

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