Tuesday 25 August 2009

Liberating the powers of the unconscious

"Everything leads me to believe that there exists a certain point in the human mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low cease being percievd as contradictions"

Andre Breton
The Second Surrealist Manifesto, 1924

"Surrealists rebelled against the norm- they sought to escape reality, expressing their fantasies through images juxtaposed with reality. Its founder, Breton, wrote about the place in the human mind where dream and fantasy would be joined with the everyday rational world we live in- "an absolute reality, a surreality".

Jamie Lopiano- Misdom & Joanne De Luca

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