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FULLY ASLEEP, she leaves her bed to explore the night. But truth is that she goes nowhere beyond her imagination, nested nicely in her head on the pillow.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton paper, 2021
22” x 30” / $400
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THERE WERE EIGHT DREAMS OF THE OCEAN where you wade
or walk in, and you think you are seeing someone you love but the creature turns out to be a sea creature that still feels like someone you know. The water is full of shape shifters.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton paper, 2021
22” x 30” / $400
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SIX PEOPLE DREAMED OF LAVA TUBES and culverts leading from land into water. The emotion of these dreams was fear, fear someone you loved could be, or already was, being pulled into the tube and in risk of never returning. Surprisingly, four people got their people back safely.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton paper, 2021
22” x 30” / $400
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A FEW DREAMED OF FLYING, of being surprised by the effortlessness of flight. In the dream, you just let yourself fall forward like you do in water. Air holds you up and you rise by your own intention. If you lose focus, you get heavy and sink down to earth again, doomed to walk about with other birds who gave up their dreams of flying in the sixth grade.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton paper, 2021
22” x 30” / $400
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IN A DREAM, SHE WAS TOLD TO LOOK FOR SEVEN WHITE DEER
She found the place and settled there. What was it like in those days when you were given the directions to your lifework while you slept, your mouth slack and your eyelids twitching?
Legend of St. Abigail, Beekeeper’s Patron, 600 AD
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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THE PROBLEM OF CATCHING BIRD SONG IN A NET IS
THAT YOU CANNOT!
Against common sense, the Dreamers have used their gift of paradoxical sleep to safely travel backwards in time. They have
been provided nets and instructions, but only a Dreamer would accept this futile task.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on silk, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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ON BEING NOT QUITE FINISHED considers the awkwardness of evolution and the daily ordinariness of getting the job done. It is
said we came from the sea, maybe just walked out of there, fingers wrinkled, lungs wheezing a little, lips salt-chapped, legs a little shaky. Some of us must have wanted to walk back in.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on silk, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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PARADOXICAL SLEEP is a physical and neurological state where
you literally cannot lift your head off the pillow and your eyelids twitch while you build dreams.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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EARTH IS CALLED ‘MOTHER’ BECAUSE SHE GAVE BIRTH FROM MOIST SOIL WOMBS TO ALL KINDS OF CREATURES, INCLUDING HOOFED THINGS AND BIRDS
As she aged, her wombs dried up and then seeds came to finish the work.
Lucretius, 1st Century AD
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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BEES WHO MAYBE THINK THIS CUP IS A FLOWER lived with dinosaurs and survived to live with flowers, still dancing …
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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BEFORE THERE WAS ANY LAND, THERE WERE BIRDS FLYING AND FLYING
They could not land for there was no land. So, when Meadowlark’s father died there was no place to bury him, so Meadowlark buried her father in her own head …
Aesop, 500 BC
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OFFERING MILK TO WHALES … Scientists say whales could have evolved from small, hoofed land mammals like tiny deer, or some other hoofed thing. Would it be better to say, off of it is a story, that making story is what humans do really well? And you can’t dispute a story.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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IRIDIUM IS SCATTERED IN THE BADLANDS, dropped like lost children’s breadcrumbs, before the way back is forgotten and lost forever. One of the rarest metals on earth, a thin band of iridium found all over the world is a geologic boundary marker of time between dinosaurs’ death and the birth of flowering plants.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
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BIRTH OF THOSE FROM GRAVES FULL OF BONES; WHAT IS POSSIBLE SWIFTLY TOOK HOLD like new alder trees that come after a fire.
Wax resist with natural dyes and tannins on cotton, 2017-2019
Suspended with shinshi sticks and wooden end-frames
15” x 60” / nfs
From the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art
