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dreams... in flight finding their way through darkness become visions free to soar to be...free to become one again with the dreamer. -Pakaage |
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| THE WORLD OF DREAMS, the Freudian subconscious, has long been a playground for artists. Much was the case in 1922 with Picabia, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dali. Surrealism had been born, and with it, the exploration of pure psychic automatism (automatic writing and painting). Andre Breton wrote in his Manifesto of Surrealism,"there is a certain point for the mind from 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 perceived as contradictions." Surrealism birthed the idea of true function of thought - thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. In the gallery to follow, you will find Pakaage's journey of automatic writing and painting. |