Busy Dreaming: - I'm playing some solo shows as The Unit Breed here in portland and finishing up a new album. You can view and purchase artwork if interested. Site will be getting a bit of fixing up. Nothing new in the art department.
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Top 3 dreams this month
1. swimming with my dad while he explains how he will be island hopping by holding onto a rope tied to a cruse ship. While he starts his journey I float off in my sleeping bag across the water to a suburban island. A friend of mine joins me and breaks into a house where two little kids live. There father comes out and thinks I'm there to purchase porn. The real porn buyer shows up behind me and I back away and join the blacks down by the docks where we dance and drink while a live band plays the blues.
2. While walking along the sidewalk of a large city, possibly new york, I am with three beautiful women. A carnival is passing bye. The carnival consists mostly of rocker kids in punk get ups on top of burned out cars playing trashy music and showing off there peacock feathers. One of the cars makes a harsh turn and the band on the roof falls to the street but continue to play.
3. There is a head that is inside of another head and we all walk outside of a pair of eyes that is the backdrop to a theaters stage. The audience are in penguin suits. Everything empties out and I am standing alone in what once was an active beautiful theater but now looks as if it has burned down in the 1920's.
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Top 3 brain foods
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - 2008
2. Terry Gilliam's - Brazil - 1985
3. Carlos Castaneda's - The Art of Dreaming - 1993
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Top 3 life changing experiences
1. Smoking DMT
2. The death of my father
3. Loosing the hearing in my right ear
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Top 3 recent visions
1. There is a man who is following me. He is not part of this world. I've most recently seen him in my basement, at a close friends house in portland, and the most pronounced appearance was at 4 am at the Gingerbread House in San Jose CA the day after Halloween where he walked up to me and vanished.
2. There is a doorway inside of my basement. I've only seen it once. It opened in the center of my room and someone's shadow closed it.
3. The week following my DMT experience a white haired goat creature began peeking into my window. He has not been seen I spoke about him.
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Top 3 stupid tricks imagination drugs lights shadows and mirrors can play on you
1. Dimensional non understanding
2. The beginning and end of all things
3. Perfections simple wonder
Always Distance the Lonely CD/LP 2009
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A little to much future tripping
Circle A Skateboards in San Jose CA has released a new Gershon Mosley Board with my painting "Imagination in my Pocket" on it. Please stop by the shop and give my hello's to Bob.
For information on The Unit Breed please take a look at our website
for tour dates and locations.
-joe
I am alive!
Currently a resident of Portland Oregon since June 04 with the exception of a stint to St. John USVI from Oct 2005 - Jan 2006. I grew up in San Jose CA and attended school at the Academy of Art in SF from 1997 - 2001. After being frustrated by professors and loosing the hearing in my right ear I dropped out of school after completing my majors. I published an art book and album in 2001 called "A Proxy of Noise" and continue to release new Unit Breed albums with my artwork. I have had art showings in small galleries, houses, businesses, schools, etc.... across the US and one show in japan. My influences include but are not limited to the stories of Kurt Vonnegut, The philosophies and music of NoMeansNo, and the egocentric mania and brilliance of Salvador Dali.
Opening Doors / acrylic / 2009
Found at Sea / acrylic and gold foil / 2009
Falling / collage / 2009
Sleeping on Fishy Dreams / pen and ink / 2009
The Big Show/ acrylic / 2009
Back to the Beginning / collage / 2009
Angels Music for Tiger / collage / 2009
Empty Shadows / acrylic on masonite / 2008
She Wishes to be Held / acrylic on masonite / 2008
Mountains / acrylic on masonite / 2008
Lost Eyes / collaged animation, music video / 2007
When We Find Clarity / acrylic on masonite / 2006
The Burying of Our Bodies / acrylic on masonite / 2006
What the Ground Wants / acrylic on masonite / 2006
Us and the Dolls / digital collage / 2006
Dear Town / acrylic and collage on masonite / 2005
Roadside Loveland / digital collage / 2005
the truth about fiction / acrylic on masonite / 2004
who's eating who? / acrylic on masonite / 2004
building bombs she said / acrylic on masonite / 2004
self portrait / acrylic on masonite / 2004
all images copyright Joseph Demaree 2003
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