Word Fungus
My collages, made with small scraps of torn paper, are worked quickly and intuitively. This creative practice has broadened to cover (literally) old 'morning pages' - the discipline of 3 pages uncensored, longhand writing to kick-start the day – repurposed in this way, two forms of expression are juxtaposed as a kind of creative palimpsest, where some of the original text shows through.
Chasing its tail
Three digital paintings.
Palaces
It was while isolating with covid last September that I decided to rescue my old manual typewriter from a box in the attic.
The giant killer wants no hands
I just love to cut up old books I find in the trash and turn them into something new and absurd. No deeper meaning, just fun and entertainment.
Pupa
Three visual poems
The Gloss Machine and the Velvet Death
The theme of this collection is “creative destruction.” I’ve taken my own work, which are mainly (industrial and street) photographically based, and defiled and deformed the original prints with an assortment of random and common household items and products, as varied as drywall screws to floor and glass cleaner to birth new art from already existing art.
Hopefully
Three watercolour paintings
The Burning That Begins in the Eyes
Everywhere we look there are faces staring back at us. Out of the corner of the eye, we spy a wink from a passing shadow or a smile in a gleam of water. We project our selves outward into the field we experience. These four collages record what I have discovered in flowers, hair, and other objects.
All the Octopi
These visual poems, which sit on a line between facts and aesthetics, celebrate octopuses. The text, consisting of a list of the common names of all octopi, is repeated and fractured and then images and colours are layered on. The process is more intuitive than deliberate, with accidents and random configurations contributing to the creative process.
Breathing Hard and Voluptuously Sleazy
These mixed-media visual poems combine acrylic paint, cut-up text and digital processes.
Femininity, Animism, and Politics: how Pop Surrealists are Re-inventing Surrealism
From female avatars to mountains with eyes, Dorothy Circus Gallery's Alexandra Mazzanti talks about trends both old and new in pop surrealism
John Maradik Surreal-Absurd Sampler
Three poems and two collages from John Maradik, complete with an intro on the surreal.
Rachel B. Glaser Surreal-Absurd Sampler
Six unique and absurd pieces from poet, short story writer, and novelist Rachel B. Glaser, complete with a mini-essay on the surreal.
Laura Wetherington Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“Thylias Moss once said to me that the knots and turns in a tree’s branches are all evidence of failures, but in the context of a complex system, they make the tree beautiful and unique. I turned to the trees, first with tree rubbings, and then with collage. I am making new sonnets, visual ones then, in the spirit of Antonin Artaud’s desire to get outside of language.”
Barton Smock Surreal-Absurd Sampler
Highlighting eight surreal/absurd poems from the ever-prolific and often self-published writer Barton Smock, complete with a mini-essay on surrealism and absurdism.
Points West
Five handmade collages
Bill Herbert Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“The non-sequiturs of the word paintings in particular set us puzzles we can neither avoid, solve, nor entirely ignore. […] This is surreal in the way John Ashbery is - something appears to be consistent at the same time as engaging with it seems to establish that it is not.”
Julia Rose Lewis Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“I suspect my poems appear surreal, because there is significant overlap between the ways in which scientists and surrealists look at the world. Commonsense is backgrounded, in both, curiosity is foregrounded.“
Forgetting Tomorrow
Five digital paintings.
Outraged by Pleasure
A selection of images from the collage artist Kathy Bruce
The never-ending quest…
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