12.10.21

...two new books from planet of dreams...

 ...view and purchase here:  https://www.ceceliachapman.com/artist-books 

During the pandemic 2020-2021, I practiced waking and immediately writing down my dreams. There are two stab-binding books of personal dreams accompanied by photography. The blue book2 is dreams of outer space with collage that includes NASA photographs. The dreams are unedited, except for punctuation. Sometimes they seem like poetry sometimes like a story.




















29.8.21

Meet the Bluffs video 2011 w/ Jeff Crouch, Blaine Reininger



The Northern California coastline is falling into the sea. But despite the global warming storms and big waves, the bulldozers, armies of workers, helicopters dropping giant rocks into the sea to protect the cliff, equipment parked in the streets, warning signs everywhere, and midnight evacuations, the apartments on the cliffs continue to rent. 


She does look like that art director that fired you. He appears to be the coke dealer at last years xmas party. But they are the targeted renter market. They are the inhabitants of apartments falling into the sea. They want the good life. Entertaining their friends drinking local cabs on the terrace watching the great fireball hit the horizon. Jogs on the beach. But wait! There is no more beach!


 Blaine Reininger track. Jeff Crouch track.


day turns black

big winds blow

bad tides running

in an evil night

when the earth

falls in the sea.


darkness sets me free 

in dreams gone mad

when the earth covers me

free of hatred, free of fear

free of love, free of you my dear


when the earth covers me

when the earth falls in the sea. 




HelpAct video 2013 w/ Jeff Crouch

 


On a dismal, outer satellite of earth the last outlawed human's desperate end is entertainment news reported live by AI newscaster who has never even encountered a human. Jeff Crouch music. Bob Ueckerlele as human and as guardian-officer. Kristina Barvels, AI.



7 Powers of Wrath video 2010 w/ Jeff Crouch, Grat Bodkin



 

Jeff's Trip w/ Jeff Crouch


 

Devils Teeth video 2013 w/ Susan Hafenscher, Matthias Boss, Marcello Magliocchi

 


Big oil, small town, global warming, government corruption. The islands off San Francisco are called Devils Teeth. They are home to great white sharks and a disputed oil drilling site. This film speculates on an unsolved mystery: a brother and sister's pursuit of truth into their mothers death, the transfer of the mother's land to a corporation, and their investigator's disappearance. Kristina Barvels, investigator. Ignacio Palma, man. Alexa Oliva, sister. Anthony, bodyguard. Susanne Hafenscher, Matthias Boss, Marcello Magliocchi, Music for a Quiet Night.



Sidetrip video 2011 w/ Barbara de Domenicis and Jeff Crouch


 

Orpheus Gun video 2012 w/ Jeff Crouch

 



DangerTune video 2010 w/ Jeff Crouch...

 




Playground Blue video 2009 w/ Jeff Crouch

 Jeff Crouch track Klassyc Kytynns. From the CartoonVideo series 2009.








16.8.21

...DreamTown USA video with Jeff Crouch...

DreamTown USA (achin' 4victory) about a small town down the road from the Nuclear reactor plant, is part two of two videos from Planet of Dreams. See part one, Nuclear Forest here https://youtu.be/7PE_swKcql0. With Jeff Crouch. 2021 https://www.ceceliachapman.com/planet-of-dreams

 

28.7.21

...In My Dream of You, PreDawn, Dragonbones and In A Word @Word for Word

in the new summer issue of Word for Word...www.wordforword.info/vol37


In My Dream of You video with Rafael Gonzalez 2020




PreDawn video with Jeff Crouch 2011




DragonBones mail collaboration with Jeff Crouch 2021




In A Word watercolors 2020
 

…from Planet of Dreams, cloak and feathered mask…

...detail canvas guardian cloak and feathered dream mask 64 x 60 in., 162.5 x 152.5 cm.

In Chapman’s Planet of Dreams, she questions how it is possible to create... in her own words, “…an alternate world where the denizens of the land transmit their memories, mythologies, and histories towards auspicious forms of environmental guardianship, stewardship, being custodians of their own fate, planet and solar system commons. 2021

'I've known rivers...' Langston Hughes

'I am  a passenger on spaceship earth.' Buckminster Fuller 

'We are all ....tied into a single garment of destiny.' Dr. Martin Luther King

https://ceceliachapman.com/planet-of-dreams

Jeff Crouch music


















27.7.21

...Eat the Night video with Jeff Crouch 2010...




A pilot and guard on a contract job extinguishing modified humans-wolves. 




PILOT man (Jeff Crouch)   ...after titan6 this dirtball's dead, but hey, I'm glad we teamed up... Where'd you get that arm?


GUARD woman (Cecelia Chapman)   ...Dorado...


P.   Whoa!


G.  Dorado's the best... next time I want the head. ...nice ride you got here...


P.   What's the id on this job?


G.   ... block6 target human, full breed, unaltered, name's Wolf...


P.   ...real bank for unaltereds... 


G.  ...everyone wants one...  but who'd want to stay un...


P.   ... hey, I got an idea... forget extinguishing the human, let's go indie on the mark, eat the night,

           take it in. We're just contract, no one checks default ops...


G.   I like the way you think... maybe we hit Dorado for matching wiring later... ...ever take a human?


P.    no, everything else...  block6! tracking target... 


G.   I want to exit and take it with you...


P.   ...someone's gotta stay shipside... ..alright, alright, grab the MO before we lock base... no

         backup, let's make this fast, after 3 time quads we're bait, who knows how many more are out here...


G.  ...I heard stories...


P.   ...mostly going to be stories - very few humans caught alive...


       

CLOSING SOUNDS, PAIR OF WALKING SOUNDS 



P.    look! ...got it in my reds! see it? 


G.    what's it doing? 


P.     who cares?


G.   ...is that hair on it?


P.    ...dirtball human's growing... ears? A tail?


G.    ...it's as if, like -  I can feel like it's eyes all over me!  It's body is so...  that's why everyone wants

           one you want  to just touch it... why is it getting down on the ground? 


P.     wow!  it just ran away fast...


G.    now what?  


P.     I don't know, let me see the MO.... hey, it says 'do not exit ship to track human,'  let's go back... 



WALKING SOUNDS



P.    is that the human in the ship?


G.    ...and you're out here...


P.     what's that mean?


G.    ...eat the night...



LOUD SHOT, ONE PERSONS FOOTSTEPS