While in a car with Wendy D.and David A., I told them about a new art studio I rented at 3^rd Ave. and Lake in San Francisco. Wendy thought I was nuts to rent it because I would have to drive there.  It was an old run down dark garage that needed a lot of cleaning and had no running water.  It had all these odd antique objects there and I thought it would be fun to go through them and see if they had any treasures inside of them or if they were of value. I felt optimistic that I would be able to fix it up into a studio and if that didn’t work, I could always sub-lease it.

We drove through a group of artists at a fair and one of the booths had a sign that read, “Free Video – Comedian with any $10.00 purchase.”  This artist sold whimsical ceramic pieces.

While looking at the art there in the booths, there was one with some bakers and I saw a tray of dough.  I took a claw-like spoon and started to stir the pieces of dough.  It was in shredded pieces.  As I stirred, I yelled out to the other bakers, “This dough doesn’t feel right to me and I should know because I’m a baker’s daughter!”

Have you ever been accused of “sleeping on the job?” Well, that is literally what I did for one year. Starting on the evening of January 1, 2007, my work would begin as soon as I kissed my husband, Mark, goodnight and headed for dreamland. There, I met old friends and strangers, experienced joy and sorrow, pity and pride, frustration and fear. I designed new inventions as well as art, and was able to relive many childhood memories, some of them savory, others bitter.   

The result of my fortunate gift of remembering dreams effortlessly upon waking is 365 pictorially recorded dreams, painted on 6 x 6 pieces of canvas—one dream per night. Due to size restrictions of my window space, I have designed “Not Just Pipe Dreams” to display 16 of my 365 dreams. I hope to do an installation of all 365 dreams in the near future. A verbal description of each displayed dream accompanies “Not Just Pipe Dreams” in the form of a small folder, located inside the studio.  Please ask to see it.