These are pieces from the 'DREAMS' series. Most people who know me know that I have a few sleeping "conditions". One is an incredibly difficult time getting to sleep. Which probably stems from not being able to fully relax and sleep deeply. This is problematic because usually I wake up at the same time everyday, no matter what time I fall asleep. The aspect of sleep that is examined in the Dreams series is obviously dreams. I rarely remember my dreams, so when I do it is personally very interesting. These sketch are visuals from one particularly intresting dream.

I don't remember the beginning of the dream or my orientation within the dream. That is to say, I don't remember what my situation was within the dream or if I was even in the scene. The first is picture 2, except the woman's head is not open. She is just standing there in a swimsuit model-like pose, very seductive and alluring. She very slowly moves from pose to pose, like a super slow motion photo shoot. Like a camera, the view slowly zooms in from a full body view to one that is rough just the upper body. The zooming is very quick, like it has been sped up many times. While zooming in the she is rotated, as if on a turntable. I am now looking at the view from picture 2, except it she is a normal nude woman in the that pose. Then she morphs, in time lapse photography manner, into the being in picture two. Now she is motionless, captured in that pose. Her head is completely bald, her ribs, pelvic arch, collar bone and elbows are showing through her skin. That is to say they are basically blending together. Those bones are not under that skin, yet there is no opening in the skin for them to come out of. The skin turns into bone.

Her head opens up like an egg from the Aliens movie. Smoke erupts out of this opening and spinning object raises out of it. This object holds it's position about 6 inches above the woman's head. The rotation begins to slow down and just as the object becomes somewhat recognizible the view zooms in like a bullet. The object is pictured in the lower right hand corner of picture 1. It is a sphere, about 5 inches in diameter, covered with evenly spaced faces. There is a ring about an inch thick that is rotating and revolving freely around the sphere. This is also covered with faces.

The faces are seen in middle of picture 1. It is a baby's face, but the back/top is split open and the skin is stretched over a thick iron ring. Each face is physically exactly the same, except that each is a different version of some original. For example, one is smiling, one has no eyes and other is sticking its tongue out, but only has one eye. When I say eye I really mean just the eyelids, because it the eyeball (the whites and pupil) were gone. When the faces didn't have eyes there was just smooth skin. There was no indication that there ever was anything there.

This is where I begin to question whether or not I was actually in the scene, because the camera flies into the orb through the mouth of the baby with its tongue stuck out. Inside there is what can only be described as an orgy. There are bodies everywhere. Some look like the figures on the left side of picture 1 and picture 3. I call these terminals. They have the same bone/skin mixture I described above, but more so. Their entire ribcages and spines are visible. They also have thick leathery cord mixed in. The cords come from some undetermined source and split into three at the back of the head. One runs into each eye socket and other into the middle of the forehead. The cords that go into the eye sockets seem to reemerge about mid thigh, wrap around the leg once and reenter. Again the heads are bald. Some have a pertrusions on either side of the forehead. Also some have cords running into the mouth.

The others look like the figure on the right side of picture 1. I call these floaters. These figures are also completely bald. The beings have an extended pelvic arch. You can see it follows the panty line and then extends outward and becomes very dark. They also have breasts that open up like flowers and reveal another breast. You can see in the picture the left breast is open and the right one is closed.

As I mentioned, all of these figures are in a huge orgy, but not with each other. The terminals are writhing and gyrating separately on the floor. They seemingly have no idea that there are other beings next to them doing the same thing. The floaters are just caressing themselves, not masterbating, just running their hands over their bodies. Periodically they will begin to rub more furiously climaxing with their "breast blosoms" popping open. The camera flies around the entire scene pausing here and there on individuals. There are also pairs of floaters and terminals that momentarily seem to be stimulating each other. They are not physically touching each other, but from action and reaction I sense that maybe they are together, but they quickly fall out of sync and return to separate actions. And that's how it ends. Weird huh?