Studies and Studios
A few pieces show my own studio or others'--or dreams set in art studios.
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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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BEET: Five Dreams One Night: by Wayan; 2013/10/30, Halloween dreams as minipoems Parasites, Rambo, huge fetus-beets, an exhibitionist and a living statue advise me on my love life... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BOOKSTORE ILLUSION: by Wayan; erasable crayon of an illusion, 14x17", 1982/6/25 I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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BOXES, or, THE THRILL OF DRAWING: by Wayan; 1999/10/20, nondream pencil drawing In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box... |
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THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls... CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE |
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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 BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness... CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS |
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CIDER AND WINE: by Wayan; 1974/10/24, surreal undream Aspie reporting Our writing class meets in this Victorian home. I turn off my filters and describe what I really see around me... |
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CIRC CERVINE: by Wayan; 2016/9/16, a dream on... how to catch difficult dreams? At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin? Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake... CAUTION: DEER NUDITY |
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ENVY'S BAND: by Wayan, 2016/1/10, a dream on ambition rebelling against niceness I meet Envy, that pushy, ambitious rock singer from the Scott Pilgrim books. She's kind of sabotaging herself--but then don't I go too far the other way? |
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FAIRY URGES A WORKTABLE: by Wayan; 2009/7/15, an advice-dream wiser than it seemed I find a long, narrow table. I have a table, but a fairy friend perches on this one and urges "Take it home! You'll do better art!" |
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FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure. A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: ALL MUST BE PRECISE: by Wayan; crayon, 1995/2/6, sketch of studio classmate An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: AND AT ALL TIMES BE SERIOUS: by Wayan; 1995/3/6?, figure study. She tried to find a pose so melodramatically goofy the sketchers couldn't take her seriously... but no. CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE IN RED HAT: by Wayan; crayon sketch from photo, 1995/5/18 Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE REACHES UP: by Wayan; 1995/5/15. Crayon figure study. From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold! CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE IN BLUE TANKTOP LOOKS IN MIRROR: by Wayan; 1995/5/15 After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself... CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT! |
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FIGURE DRAWING: BROWN GIRL STEPS: by Wayan; 1995/2/27; studio sketch-portrait A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: CAT-MARE-GIRL: by Wayan; 1995/7/24; studio sketch, crayon. Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked. A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots. CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: REDHEAD SITS IN DIAMOND: by Wayan, 1999/5/12, acrylic figure-study A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick... CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EAGER ARTIST: by Wayan; 1995/1/30, studio sketch. Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent! |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EYES SHUT IN SUN: by Wayan; 1995/5/17, crayon sketch from photo. Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent... |
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FIGURE DRAWING: EVANGELINE'S FERNS: by Wayan, spring 1995, crayon figure-study She arranged pillows and potted ferns and just told us to picture real rocks and the ferny cascade she wanted to lounge by... CAUTION: NUDITY... |
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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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FIGURE DRAWING: NINA SCARES US WITH HER BICEPS: by Wayan; 1995/5/8, studio sketch Just what it says. CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS |
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FIGURE DRAWING: NINA IS A TV: by Wayan; 1995/5/8 studio drawing, crayon Nina the model's weirdest pose yet, as a TV with rabbit-ear antennae... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: PEEKABOO: by Wayan; 1989/1/2, crayon based on photo Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings. CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: RAIN!: by Wayan; 1982/7/26, figure studies in pastel & watercolor Playful girl steps out in just her translucent yellow raincoat, clear boots & red umbrella as a shower ends & the sun comes out. Dreamlike, but not a dream! CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: SSSSH!: by Wayan; 1995/4/17, studio life-drawing, crayon. Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: SILKY ON FUR: by Wayan; 1983/6/18, an undream crayon; half photo half memory A model lying on fur in gold light. But she was pouting in that seventies way, so I found myself drawing the kind face of a childhood friend instead... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: STARE DOWN THE SHOE: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, crayon studio sketch A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: STUDIO: by Wayan; 1999/5/12; acrylic figure sketch In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: UNDECIDED: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, pencil figure sketch Evangeline between poses, hand to mouth, undecided, in an odd evanescent mood I tried to catch... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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FIGURE DRAWING: WEREWOLF GIRL: by Wayan; fall 1989; studio sketch, pencil. I found this misfiled in a box of art with just the year on it, so I can't credit the model. But she looked like this to me... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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FLOWERHEADED CAT: by Wayan; 2005/8/17, two bizarre, sexy, advisory dreamlets My co-worker flashes a lot. Her boyfriend helps--flaps her skirt up to bare her pussy. What's their agenda? In a dream-sculptor's studio, I pet her lily-headed cat, who purrs. I think "At least her pussy likes me..." CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PUNS, PETTING |
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FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams! My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints, muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them... CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX |
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GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers... |
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GEEK SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/12. Epic primitive digital painting on body image A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror... |
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LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place. My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though... CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT |
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LILIES, DREAMER, FOX: by Wayan; 1998/5/27, acrylic on 46" plywood disk, life study. She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming. Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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MASK: by Wayan; 1989/11/21, digital print of dream-me trapped in the day-world. I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY |
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MEETING CARAVAGGIO: by Phyllis Davidson, 1978, a dream earned the hard way While painting a tribute to my hero/mentor Caravaggio, I dream we meet. He talks of his art as we walk a dark space full of living chiaroscuro scenes we can circle, see from all angles... |
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MESOPOTAMIAN RINGS: by Herman Hilprecht, Jan.-Mar. 1883; two problem-solving dreams I dreamt of a better translation of Nebuchadnezzar's name, since universally accepted... I dreamt a priest of old Nippur told me two agate pieces, long separated, formed a pair... |
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NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; 1999/9/20. waking vision in ink & acrylic applied with a stick It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines... |
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NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human... |
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NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit. At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website... |
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NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Patagia, 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls... |
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ODE TO NOT WRITING ODES: by Wayan; 2019/7/17; a nondream non-ode In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch... |
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PERFUMES: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, early 1860s? Experiments in scent-triggered dreams I trained myself to associate one scent with the mountains, one with an art studio. On a random night my servant applied both secretly, and I dreamt artist & model burst into a mountain scene... |
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PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES |
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PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION: by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony. My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project... CAUTION: PONIES |
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PLANET-SCULPTING APE: by "AE" (George Russell); mid-1870s, a childhood characterological dream. On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike... |
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RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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RADIANCE: by Anonymous #42, 1996?, a transcendent dream backed away from In the recording studio, some background noise. Isolated and amplified, it's a chorus of inhuman voices praising an unknown deity. The song becomes a mandala pulling me in... |
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REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999/5/5. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson. The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream. THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones... THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"... |
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RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study. A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun... |
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SELF-CENSOR?: by Wayan; 2022/11/4, an art-dream about dreams themselves I'm in an art class drawing a dream image--a dog-taur or wolf-taur girl. But I hesitate to draw her flashing me as she did in the dream. Should I risk offending half my class, or make her modest and innocuous? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 2000/1/23; portrait of recurring dream self. I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it... |
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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE: by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing. Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this... |
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SEX SOX: by Wayan, 1986/9/1, half a life drawing, half imaginary A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment... CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE BILL CLINTON, NO SAX) |
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SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink. A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale. Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last... |
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SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999/9/13. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges; acrylic wash. In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones... |
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A SPHINX IN CLAY: by Wayan; 2017/2/25, a dream urging me to face my heritage. Also sculpt! I'm a half-sphinx--human dad, sphinx mom--stuck in human form so far. Will I ever learn to shift? I practice--sculpt my elegant feline future self... CAUTION: SPHINX NUDITY |
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SQUEEZE LEGS FOR THAT LOVELY FEELING: by Wayan; 1988/11/14, nondream sex-fantasy in crayon I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so... CAUTION: SEX |
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STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species... |
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TRUST YOUR CANOE: by Wayan; 2012/8/16, two diagnostic dreamlets I ride a magical self-guiding canoe, seeking the right beach and cove for me. Even when the boat climbs hills so I can explore inland, I expect it to fail... |
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UNGHOSTS OF CHINA: by Wayan; 2009/9/2, a ghost-dream poem; Dreamverse #53 THAT DAY: art nonstop! Put myself down for obsessing. Empty man! THAT NIGHT: I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons. So are they ghosts, or just written off by idiots? MORNING: wait--have I been calling me dead? Oh... |
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UNICORN BOY: by Wayan; drawing 1984, shaded 2001; dream-self portrait. Me as a unicorn boy. Though I got a haircut since then, and most people can't see the horn... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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UNICORN LEAP: by Wayan; 1987/10/27?, nondream ink sketch tinted with acrylic. A unicorn in a dance performance--a solo vignette with a spectacular leap. And the dancer knows it... |
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UNICORN MENTALITY: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/7/16, a dream of unicorn art spilling over into reality Dreamworkers gawk at sexy unicorn drawings all over my bed. One friend's part unicorn. The other? I wonder... Ten years later, having learned I have a rare mutation making me not too human, the dream feels half-predictive... CAUTION: UNIPORN? |
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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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THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique. Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between... CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH |
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THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive 1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse? 2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it... 3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings... |
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WAYAN'S STUDIO: Wayan, 1999/10/6, ink sketches of workspace These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do just follow my bliss. Works better for me than logic. |
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WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer. In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon... |
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WOMAN WITH PLANS: by Wayan; May 1981, a crayon portrait A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains... CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS |
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