I see/hear words and phrases in dreams and in the hypnagogic state (between wakefulness and sleep). Then I come up with visuals for them.
Pen and gouache on paper, 9”x12”, 2010
Colored pencil on colored paper, 8.5”x11”, 2008
Pen and colored pencil, 9”x12”, 2007
Pencil, pen and colored pencil, 8.5.”x11’, 2009
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 6”x 7.75”, 2009
Pen, gouache and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2009
Photocopy, pen and colored pencil on cardstock, 8.5”x11”, 2014
Pencil, pen, colored pencil and collage on paper, 9”x12”, 2009
Pen and colored pencil, 9”x12”, 2010
Gouache, pen and colored pencil on photo paper, 8.5”x11”, 2014
Pen, pencil and collage on paper, 8.5”x11”, 2014
Composite sketches with only a name to go on.
Pen and colored pencil, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen on paper, 9”x12”, 2016 [detail]
Pen, colored pencil, collage and spray paint on colored paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2015
Gouache, pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Pen and gouache on paper, 9”x12”, 2016
Gouache, frisket, pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Pen, gouache and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Dreamwords which sync with drawings I've already done, and vice versa.
Pencil on found paper, 5.75”x9”, 2014
[I tore the manila checkout card pocket off the inside cover of a discarded library book. I saw a figure in the shape that was left and sketched in pencil until a bear-human presented itself. I looked through my old dreamwords and found “ursanthropy”, which would mean someone who could shapeshift into a bear.]
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 1991
(The word “troutinity” came to me while nodding off. I later found a drawing I had done many years earlier in which an apparition of a crucifix glows above three fish.)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 1998
(The word “baconfish” came to me while falling asleep. Later, I came across this drawing I did many years before.)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 6”x6.25”, ‘80s/2014
(drawing completed many years ago then matched with hypnagogic title in 2014. A fish cut into three pieces while three flies approach.)
Pen, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 1998/2014
(hypnagogic phrase matched with completed drawing)
Pen, colored pencil, collage and soot on paper, 9”x12”, 1995/2014
(I completed this drawing [except for the lettering] many years ago. In 2014, I came across the perfect title “red truck violence” in one of my dreamwords notebooks.)
Pen on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(I completed this drawing [except for the lettering] and matched it with “Red Oscar of Death”, a phrase from one of my dreamwords notebooks. Years later, I came across the drawing and tried to remember what Oscar Wilde’s hairstyle was like. I googled it and was like, whoa.)
Pencil and colored pencil, 8.5”x11”, 2014
I wrote down the dreamwords “industrial eyes” and later ran across a rubbing I’d done years before of a metal relief from the ‘50s or ‘60s I’d found in a salvage yard or somewhere. I then added what you see in blue to illustrate the dreamwords’ play on the word “industrialize”. No major synchronicity, just a bit of serendipity in the studio.
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, circa 2009
Dreamphrase matched with a drawing I’d already done.
Gouache, pen, colored pencil and collage on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(hypnagogic phrase paired with completed drawing)
Pen, colored pencil, collage and transfer type on paper, 6”x8”, 2014
(hypnagogic phrase paired with completed [except for lettering] drawing)
Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 1995
(drawing paired with hypnagogic title in 2014.)
Pen, colored pencil, pencil and collage on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(drawing paired with hypnagogic title)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 6”x 6.25”, ‘80s
(hypnagogic title paired in 2014 with old drawing.)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2008
(hypnagogic title paired with completed drawing)
Pen and pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 1987
(previously completed drawing matched with hypnagogic title)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2007
(hypnagogic title paired with completed [except for lettering] drawing)
Gouache, frisket, pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(completed drawing gets dreamword title)
Imagined cities paired with city names heard/read in dreams.
Pen and colored pencil on origami paper, 6”x 6”, 2015
Pen and colored pencil on origami paper, 6”x6”, 2015
(This dreamword matched well with this drawing I had already completed [note the pink shell].)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(hypnagogic title matched with already completed drawing)
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Pen and colored pencil on paper, 9”x12”, 2016
(hypnagogic title matched with already completed drawing)
Works on paper using discarded/lost notes and letters I find while walking.
Pen, colored pencil and collage on found note, 6”x9”, 2014
Pen, colored pencil and collage on found photograph/paper, 9”x12”, 2015
Colored pencil and photocopied drawing collaged onto found note, 8".5”x11”, 2001
Marker on calendar page with found note, 8.5”x11”, 2001
Pen on origami paper collaged onto found list, 3.5”x4.75”, 2016
Pen, colored pencil, gouache, found notes and missing person report on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Colored pencil rubbing of thrift store relief overlaid with transparency of found note, 8.5”x11, 2001
Reverse color copy of drawing with collaged photocopy of found note, 8.5”x11”, 2001
Pen, colored pencil and collage on found note,6”x9”, 2014
Pen and colored pencil drawing collaged with photocopy of found letter, 8.5”x11, 2001
Pen, colored pencil and found note on paper, 6" x 9", 2014
Pen and colored pencil drawings collaged onto found letter, mounted on black paper, 6”x9”, 2014
(one part of the child’s letter reads, “I’m seeing a lot of new things here in America.”)
[thanks to Noah for the translation from Hiragana.]
Pen, colored pencil and found document fragment on paper, 9”x12”, 2014
Pen, pencil, collage and correction fluid on typewritten note found in Grampa’s workshop, 3.5”x6”, 2015
The use of found paper items and serendipity/synchronicity as art materials.
Bradshaw Crandell print (found torn on sidewalk), mounted on black paper, 9”x12”, 2014
(In 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan was killed after her scarf got caught in the wheels of the car she was driving.)
Pen, colored pencil, spray paint and found notes on cardboard, 9”x12”, 2016
Found note on already completed pen and colored pencil drawing, 9”x12”, 2014
Colored pencil on found job application, 8.5”x11”, 2002
[hypnagogic title matched with completed piece]
Gouache, pencil, receipt and found paper on paper, 9”x12”, 2015
[receipt was added to completed drawing/collage]
Found fragment of cardboard street sign [as-is], mounted on black paper, 9”x12”, 2014
