Fiction. Art. CONSCIOUS/UNCONSCIOUS is a set of short stories narrated in the first person, weaving an inner life made real by paradoxes and conflicting drives. Michael Hafftka, who began this collection in 1973, is a visual artist represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum, The MoMA, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc. "He (Hafftka) transfers personal experiences and the universal pain of our species to his canvases with the compassion of a saint and the technical prowess of an Old Master. Hafftka's paintings claim a lineage through Francis Bacon by way of Bosch and Goya"-Steve Starger, Art New England, May 2005. Includes 27 drawings by the author.