dash: You've been doing art for almost 2 decades now, how do you think your talents have developed?
DW: By maintaining the love, intensity, and passion, and changing everything
else.

dash: What is your primary medium?
DW: Oil paint on prepared masonite.

dash: Do you find a goal ahead of you as an artist?
DW: Always

dash: Describe your work habits for art.
DW: I work when inspiration triggers the trance space. There are prime moments through out the day when the flow is most ideal. It is imperative to work during these times. Lately that's been averaging about six hours a day. I have music playing at all times. I have a beverage on hand at all times, as well.

dash: What do you find is your greatest accomplishment to date?
DW: The fact that I'm here, alive, in love, seeing my dreams manifest before my eyes.

dash: How many books do you have out?
DW: Two. The first is My Leeetle Electron and the second is Light. I like to think of them as my moon and sun, respectively.

dash: Are you planning on making another go of the comic book run?
DW: My Leeetle Electron and Light are continually in print. The next book will come when the Time is right.

dash: You've moved around a little bit in your life, how do you find this has affected your art?
DW: I am composing my life just as I would compose a painting. Each move shifts focus from one compositional element to the next while creating the greater whole.

dash: What is the daily routine of your life these days?
DW: Every morning, I wake up. I spend about an hour performing various morning rituals. The most appropriate project then presents itself. I work on that project until breakfast burns out. Usually about five or six hours. Then I piddle around for a couple of hours. I make phone calls and read emails. I have lunch, I play and I read. I walk around and look at the world.

Then inspiration hits again. When it does, I spend a few hours on another
project. After that, I either nestle in for the evening, or I get in costume, go out,
and cavort with the locals.

dash: At Syracuse you studied under a painter named Jerome Witkin, (twin brother of the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin) both are unique artists in their own
fields, how did he affect you?
DW: Like Miracle Grow.

dash: Do you find your art has been directly influenced by his style and art?
DW: I absorbed as much of Jerome as possible in the time we spent together. What I absorbed is always with me during my process. And in that way, it will always be present in my work.

dash: What other influences do you find prominent in your art?
DW: My friends, my family, Al Gury, the ocean, Herman Hesse, coffee, fire, Miles Davis, Neil Gaiman, Neptune King of the Sea, chai, pancakes, MagmaVOX, Star Wars, the Moon, the Sun, the Goddess Tara, Ayn Rand, pacalolo, cabernet savignon, shamanism, The Burning Man, and The Ode to Joy.

dash: Do you feel computers have changed the way art is perceived?
DW: No. The computer is a new medium for art, but the act of perception remains the same.

dash: How has it changed your art?
DW: The computer has given me new forms for my vision.

dash: Do you have any personal favorite artists or pieces of art?
DW: The Sacred Mirrors by Alex Grey, Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Window VII by George Tooker, Death as an Usher by Jerome Witkin, Egon Schiele,
Vladamir Kush, Dave McKean, Anthony Ryder, & Lucian Freud.

dash: What do you think the common link in your art is?
DW: Me.

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