When June and I first met in 1986 she had been working with the early computer paint programs since their advent. Having created a short video for a musician she was looking for a simple childrens’ story to animate. I’d been sitting with a story of a 500-feet-tall giantess made of fire, who appears spontaneously in a country village in Provence, to first terrify, and then befriend and counsel, the country folk.
We labored for three years with little success, with hopelessly inadequate and primitive equipment, attempting to produce a convincingly fiery giantess. Although the original video was never completed, out of this exercise emerged a number of magickal images that will tickle the fancy of any who’ve recalled their Cathar incarnations.

Over the years June and I have collaborated in creating a number of images for specific purposes. We generated a line of sacred greeting cards using my hand-drawn graphix as a basis for June’s elegant computer modulation. June also created the intriguing cover for the first edition of my 1993 book, ‘Dolphins, Telepathy & Underwater Birthing’ for Bear & Company, subsequently republished in 2001 by Origin Press with the new title of ‘Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences’.

Growing frustrated with the limitations and the essential sameness of computer generated effects, and having discovered that we work very compatibly, June and I started exploring whether we could develop hand-drawn pieces by working on them together. We allow the images to grow spontaneously after an agreement on the general direction of the graphic, passing the drawing back and forth from NYC to NM, each of us adding and integrating elements until a final gestalt emerges.

The Path of the Rainbow Serpent is a double CD set of 19 spoken-word pieces, almost all of which I received in a particularly prolific period in the 1980s. They were so raw and psychically tender that I’ve hesitated to get them out there for the last 20 years.
Finally, meeting Jim Wilson and hearing he’d worked musically with spoken word material from Timothy Leary and Alan Ginsberg, as well as his wonderful TULKU series of CDs, I felt encouraged to collaborate with him. Jim’s mastership of the technique of sampling has added another dimension to the work, embedding further layers of rhythmic and tonal insights.

Video animation collaboration with videographer, Flame Schon.

The Helianx Awakens is a short animated video which illustrates a prose poem I received in the mid-1980s as I sat in a small hotel room in Cuzco, Peru.
For some years I’d been looking for a videographer who might be able to take on The Helianx Proposition, a much longer and more complex challenge. When I met Flame Schon in 2004 we agreed to work first on a shorter piece, to see how we were able to collaborate. It turned out better than I could have expected. The Helianx Awakens is that piece.

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Working in the mid to late '80s, a small group of Artists, Writers and Therapists created the Bozon Interplanetary Gazette, an irregular newsletter for the cosmically conscious.

Welcoming input from a wide variety of sources. BIG aimed to present (with humor and intelligence) an alternate view of the world within a larger Universe context.

BIG thrived modestly for 3 issues before life carried the participants in defferent directions in 1990.