Surrealistic picture do not represent
profound and planed structure, thus it represents the highest
level of randomness, occurrence and irrationality, because it
is originated on the other side of visual reality, in the complex
labyrinths of sub consciousness. I use the sources from sub consciousness,
dreams, hallucinations, incidence and fantasy. Sub conscious is
the key element in the surrealistic scheme of picture. Atelier
looks like alchemic chamber—producer of souls or soul seeker.
It is, really, a Proustic chamber with cork-coated walls that
allows “flowing” of the
consciousness in the sense of pure transcendence. In that kind
of room the soul could be “caught”
in the pure form, without admixtures from external world.
The painting becomes real demonstration of flow of the consciousness.
And finally it is possible to catch that something, which with
some other painting approach cannot be caught. Surrealist approach
to the painting is serious and deep. Surrealism engages itself
in philosophy, in spontaneous story. It recognizes poetry as a
very important category of its expression. That is why surrealism
represents deeper grasp into life and its secrets.
Surreality can be contained in reality and vice versa. There is
osmosis between reality and surreality, an endless border of mystery,
capable to excite us with very alive intensity of the most distant
and the most excited magical achievements.
Surreality not only as a mean for revealing the waste of consciousness
which serves as a “corrosive waters”,
and not only as a mean of annulment of illusions of rational reality,
but as mean of once-again unity of conscious and unconscious territory
of experience, so completely that world of dreams and fantasy
is united with everyday divided world in absolute reality-surreality.
I explore connection between dreams and unconscious mind, because
dream represents a little hidden door into the deepest and the
most secret corners of psyche.
Dream could be dreamt off in sleep or reality. Sleeping mind gives
us, seemingly privileged channel of communication with “hidden
images” of unconscious mind. This communication has
been characterized by strange symbols, unreal references, condensed
and dislocated events and objects.
You can let dream to stay in its full clarity, so it can be manifests
like that, or we can include symbols and their meaning. Paintings
should be something like voyage into dreams, ennobled with poetry,
so that we can feel oniric power. Anything that comes to my consciousness
materializes in me. It becomes the land of dreams, something halfway
between a fairy-tale and nightmare. I am occupy with reconstruction
of dream world, so in that way I can explore human sexuality (fears,
obsessions, desires…) – pictures like witnesses of
real neuroses or obsessions.
Pictures like body projections, expression of subjectivity and
our inner world - the world of collisions and conflicts with external
objective reality. “What we see, is
not in things, it is in our soul.” (Male Branche)
At the end, everything depends from our power to willingly hallucinate.
The surfaces of the real world are to be explored with minute
attention to detail in order to reveal “a
secret world, a new aspect”.
We have to try to invent new poetic metaphors for turbulent end
fragmented post-modern age.
Our world “A place of decay …
related to our culture.” (Lehndorff)
Self-destruction – we have to, openly, confront with dark
side of our nature, fears and irrationalities.
Desire for transformation, to invent ourselves again, to be closer
to perfection…
