[MetroActive Arts]   Dream Designer  [whitespace] David Prothero
Paper chase: David Prothero pursues the fantastic in his
Petaluma studio.  Michael Amsler  David Prothero makes fantasy
happen  By David Templeton  WARNING!" cautions David Prothero,
as a guest steps unaware into his living room. "Warning! Here
there be dragons." Prothero is not being merely whimsical--
though one could hardly look around the room and not be struck
by the prevailing whimsy of the neo-gothic, gargoyles-and-ravens
design scheme of the place. The dragons he warns of are real.
"Water dragons," he explains, leaning over to scoop one of them
up from its hiding place. Cradling the 2-foot-long, flushed-red
reptile gently, he turns it about to gaze into its scaly face.
"There's another one around somewhere," he says. "They're
pleasant little fellows. They eat baby mice."  The gleefully
macabre interior of Prothero's Petaluma home is tempered by less
off-beat--but equally playful--decorations: Numerous dwarves
(the Disney kind) exist in v