I almost thought about you last night.
Could you tell me more about you please?
The subconscious sees life with only five pixels.
And stands alone near no breeze.

Everything we have to deal with is complex but it's also simple too. Art shows that   simplicity but not too simple please or it shows nothing.

A Dream Theory I like saying my 1764 dream paintings are deadpan simplifciations like the core of a lighning bolt or like a five pixel (five symbol) camera, (of my problem solving thinking, not of what I see). I think dreams are simplified thinking, and they are a form of fractals. Dreams are simplified fractals of thinking, that follow the same shape as the complicated fractals of thinking made while awake. It's        like being asked to draw the shape of a distant mountain, but being told you are only allowed to show its shape by using 7 match sticks. Or being asked to draw the shape of a recent lightning bolt, but you can only use 10 match sticks. Simplification. I wonder why we dream. They must mean something. The lightning bolt asked. When it's core bent hunting.

Some Art Theories
Doesn't every thought whether tiny while awake or large while asleep contain a perception, a problem, and a solution? Shouldn't a painting or a quatrain contain them too?

Art and dreams are the complexities we imagine must be   in between the simple things pointed out.

Then my five pixel camera.
Answered her question in kind.
Inside must be simple.
Because outside is all time.

I believe my works of art are all following the dynamics of fractals and I wish to explain why in great detail. I am an amateur artist poet here in Ottawa. I get ideas for my paintings by walking around in lucid dreams and LOOKING AT PAINTINGS in order to memorize them so I can reproduce them while I'm awake. I have done this successfully over a hundred times in the last fourteen years. I have 1764 paintings but I'm only showing 1701 of them at my personal web site. Now I have found that all these paintings end up with the same feeling to them or leave me the viewer feeling the same way. And I think that this feeling can be explained with fractals.

First let me explain that when a computer wants to generate or render a fractal mountain, it does so by dividing a line in two by selecting a random distance between two end points. Then it raises that middle point to a random height. You now have a randomly shaped triangle. Now it takes the two sloped sides of this triangle and further divides them again by selecting points randomly between the top and ends. Now it takes these two new random mid points and randomly decides to raise or lower them by once again a random distance.

I believe what we have at this point is a fractal generated mountain image in its first moments of life. The real word for it mathematically is that the fractal generated mountain graphic is in its first iteration of calculation passes. After the computer performs thousands of more iterations or calculation passes we end up with a very complex mountain graphic beautiful in its imitation of nature.

Ok now my point. I believe all my paintings have the same feel to them as that first iteration. Lets explore that statement. I believe the first iteration of the mountain graphic is a much simpler form of the way the mountain is going to look after one or two more thousand calculation passes. Sure in its first iteration the mountain is only five dots joined by four lines but that simplistic shape is the founding shape for the mountain graphic in its complex final form. Likewise I feel my paintings are simplified thought. Where everyday moment to moment thoughts would be like the fractal mountain graphic in its final complex form and my paintings are a first iteration simplification of a full day of thought. In other words. A full day of thinking would be hundreds of thousands of individual complexities but my paintings are these same marid of thoughts simplified down to just the big most important raw basic three or four thoughts. The first iterations of thought if you will. What I'm saying is that a viewer gets the same feeling when they look at either one of my paintings or a first iteration. Meaning any first iteration. They're everywhere you know. Actually I've always thought that a good name for a new company might be FIRST ITERATION INSPIRATIONS. Catchy huh. (Anyone can feel free you use it. I never will.) Well, have a look at my paintings on my homepage and I think you will agree with me that what I'm saying has some truth. I also now try to apply this feeling to my poetry.

I think what I'm trying to say in a nutshell is this. I think
these paintings from lucid dreams are like a new type of
photography that can take photographs of thinking or emotional
terrain.

When a person views my lucid dream paintings or my quatrains they   are seeing constellations, -constellations of thinking.

Would you like to see my art,
I own a five pixel camera.
Five symbols is all it takes,
and lonely folds the drama.

One example of this fractal effect in dreaming can be seen in the way of stars and their constellations. A constellation like the Big Dipper for instance is made up from seven stars. But it is our minds that are picking the seven stars.  They are the brightest (most important) and it is our minds that are drawing the lines between them. There are an infinite number of dimmer stars around and behind those seven stars, but our minds tune them out. It simplifies and then imposes a vision. I believe my paintings from lucid dreams are working the same fractal like way. In this comparison to stars, a thought from my week such as "butter or jam for my toast" would be an un-important thought and would be equal to one of those very tiny dim stars behind. But a thought from my week such as "should I move to another city" would be a very important thought and would be equal to one of the brightest stars and become an important star in the constellation, such as the end of the handle in the Big Dipper. This is how I think my paintings from lucid dreams are working. I don't mean to say dream thinking is a playback of thoughts already made during the week. I'm meaning to say, dream thinking is new on the fly processing, but it's slowed down and is very important thinking only.

To me painting and drawing skills look like humanity's.
Shiny new impressive 5 pixel camera invention.
Which is pretty boring if you don't point it at the 5 metaphors.
That are in front of us but eyes don't mention.

Another point I'd like to bring up is the word "deadpan". I think that what is showing in my lucid dream paintings is silence.  If all the various styles in the arts were to have an assigned position on a color wheel such as comedy, drama, action, etc. Then I'd say my paintings from lucid dreams would be dead center of that color wheel. In other words, deadpan. They state nothing.

  The word that best discribes dreams in my oppionon is the word
 "deadpan". I like painting art from my dreams because they show that
 one tiny little thought that is hiding at the very center of the thousands
 of other thoughts I'm dealing with each day. I have to talk endlessly
 like a machine gun to try and share that one tiny center thought. But
 dreams don't miss it ever. They are deadpan.

You cannot see it, but there's a flickering flame. There's no monopoly   on centers, in the shadows game.

I have no proof but I have a feeling dreams are very very related mathematically to the perfect number called "pi" and the perfect ratio called "the golden mean". I have been suspecting that dreams are showing us these two numbers in the form of balanced thinking and peaceful unbiased observation. The closest thing I can offer in the way of proof is the reoccurring many times, images in my lucid dream paintings of SLANTED trees, boats, motorcycles, and drinking straws. The slant being this ratio shown as an angle within ninety degrees. I suspect it might also be the same angle as the earth's tilt in orbit.

Next is one of my favorite art quotes, I found it years   ago in a channeling newsletter.

"Almost all artistic expression benefits from a recognition of contrast placed beside patterns, or repetitions, whereby relationships and contrasts play key roles in any kind of artistic expression, the contrast showing the differences, the relationships showing the sameness."  -  CAC Comunications Newsletter

I think this statement compares interestingly well to the Art/Life mountain diagrams I showed you above.

Let me raise a toast to artists. Dreams and atoms are just lots of dots. With the   only way to be or see things. They connect the dots with thoughts.

Here is one more graphic to help explain how I think dreams work. If I stare at this grid
of dots below, I can see any shapes or patterns in the dots that I want to think of.
If I think of groups of four, I see groups of four. If I think of groups of
six, I see groups of six.  I can also see crosses, boxes, diagonals, columns and borders.
I think this is how dreams work too. We dream of what ever we think of.

I recently found out the exact word for all this is "abstract" or
"abstraction", which scientist use to mean a simplification of the complex.
Unfortunately I never new about it, because the word abstract is also used
by the art industry to mean art that is not a representation of anything.