On surrealism

Surrealism is off the hook. The visual surrealism isn't the pure surrealism. The 'founders' or to put it more amusingly, 'conspirators' of the movement were poets and pure surrealism is in it's birth state.
Example:
THE OBSCURE SILENCE OF METALS WAS GRAZING ON THEIR WORDS
Visual artists were interested in it and produced their visual work yes. What they couldn't accomplish that the writers were able to easily do since words are not as iconic was to write, with seemingly a lack of reason, eccentrically familiar, or passable, prose and poetry. The extent of the capabilities of the visual capabilities of surrealism "treat the image as viable only so long as it conflicts with reasonable presumptions... provides a spectacle for which rational logic or past experinces have not prepared us."


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And here's SHAWN CHENG, a fabulous local comic artist.

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http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=20848

Yayoi Kusama =
cray + cray

Imagining Defeat
by David Berman

She woke me up at dawn,
her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels.

I sat up and looked out the window
at the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees.

A bus ticket in her hand.

Then she brought something black up to her mouth,
a plum I thought, but it was an asthma inhaler.

I reached under the bed for my menthols
and she asked if I ever thought of cancer.

Yes, I said, but always as a tree way up ahead
in the distance where it doesn't matter

And I suppose a dead soul must look back at that tree,
so far behind his wagon where it also doesn't matter.

except as a memory of rest or water.

Though to believe any of that, I thought,
you have to accept the premise

that she woke me up at all.

My candy braces

the super Lamb banana
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