Surrealism

Surrealism is an ongoing theme in this piece of work, that i hadn't previously intended on, however when artists explore any part of the mind and it's subconscious state we enter a realm where the impossible is possible. 

Surrealism 

ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of the dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to destroy definitively all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

This is a painting by Rene Magritte is called The False Mirror (1935). During this time, it was considered, among surrealists, that the symbol of the closed eye represented a subversion of reality by drawing on interior states, therefor the image of the open eye, usually interpreted as an access between the person and the world - their soul, was a false vision of a mirror. Reality lay elsewhere. This is a very interesting concept to me, as i naturally, have always perceived the eye to represent the 'window to the soul', however it's refreshing to interpret it this way. According to surrealist artists automatism is a the state or mental process whereby something is done without consciousness like a reflex action or an instinct that you aren't conciously aware of performing. Surrealists have a "pure psychic automatism" The Dadaists talked about the removal of rationality and logic to align with new art processes developed and structured through chance and irrational logic. In the case of the surrealists, chance was still a valid external force, yet due to their interest in psychiatry was equated with the unconscious in all its manifestations. For example, an automatic drawing would be one that was the most pure thought of unconsciousness, an instinct, maybe an accident, maybe it's only when we tap into this we allow the unnecessary clouding information to be bypassed and in turn stroke pure genius.