Surrealisms

• About this book
• Volume 1: Introduction
• Chapter 1. Survey
• Hairs – Hairs get in our faces like spider webs.
• Onomatopoeia – Simplicities ensnare us.
• No face – The enemy has no face.
• An object – An object in plaster is like nothing else.
• Words – I know a way to insert my thoughts into your head.
• Minds – The conscious mind observes.
• Dreaming – Transient visions beguile while we forget.
• Dream – Naked reality has no real command.
• Chance – Accidents seem purposeful.
• Selected objects – Hidden meanings quietly direct our conscious choices.
• Something disturbing – If something disturbs you, it has something to teach.
• Something missing – Why are streets empty?
• Parapraxis – It wasn’t what you meant to say.
• Compulsive behavior – I’m addicted to air.
• Sense – Everything doesn’t make sense.
• Sanity – I’m in love with anything that questions your sanity.
• Bodily functions – You can’t entirly hide your bodily functions.
• Contradictions – We embrace contradictions but not hypocrisies.
• Body part – My lover’s ear is lovely as she.
• Feet and narrow lanes – I love the unwashed parts.
• Western rigidity – African and Asian cultures may win in the end.
• Butterflies – Tiny messages flutter truths.
• Sins – I try to repent.
• Madness – Who is mad who cannot live in this crazy world?
• Automatism – Nothing here is “automatic.”
• Symbolism – You need to say what each symbol means.
• Subversion – The bourgeois deserve only horrors.
• Volume 2: Works
• Chapter 2. Chance and freedom
• Windows and doors – You should be trying to free your mind.
• Bridges – Accepting spontaneous chances is a bridge.
• Chance encounter – Raw chance may produce beauty.
• Natural processes – Eventually, lint and dust will cover what we’ve made.
• Psychic enquiry – Psychic paths may help humankind.
• Freedom – Freedom is a human right.
• Natural man – A man’s brow mingles with the hills.
• Furious suns – Each star is a piercing sun.
• The hunter – The hunter smokes his pipe and defies you.
• Love dart – Ecstasy is a wound in slimy flesh.
• Blue – A bird fills a solid hole in space and time.
• Olé, olé – It’s difficult to escape the figurative.
• Red lips – Red lips span from white to black.
• Roots of air – I create a playful form of life.
• Script – Our parts are written in the sand.
• Dead fish – Flies attend a dead fish on the sand.
• Out of a burning bush – This might not be the hand of God.
• Decaying forms – A bird and its prey are in decay.
• Exquisite chance – The child may be beautiful in your eyes only.
• Wheel of light – An iris is a wheel of light.
• Forest – The forest is thick and dark.
• Accumulations – Aggregations accumulate in the brain.
• Snowbirds – Birds that make snow are like ghosts.
• Caught – We are caught in a ghostly web.
• Exile – We gather in exile to taunt our pursuers.
• Devil – The face of the devil is scratched onto the wall.
• Chapter 3. Poetics of vision
• False mirror – Every lover sees themselves.
• Projections – Other eyes will choose how to see you.
• Thin layer – You can’t necessarily tell what you’re seeing.
• Grace – The angel’s feathers are swept into a pile.
• Not a delight – This fantasy is not a delight.
• Attractive impossibilities – They provoke bad memories, but they’re interesting to ponder.
• Embarrassment – Artists mock the awkward embarrassment.
• Scaffolding – A third party collages collaborators.
• Introduction – The soul is wordless.
• First conception – Afraid and ashamed, they can’t admit the truth.
• Third conception – They failed to understand what they had created.
• Truth – The truth is imaginable.
• Abject devotion – To me, punishment is a blessing.
• Storybook transmission – We imaging a better life.
• Metonymic mannequin – The imagination can transform anything.
• Visual transmutations – If you look too close, it all dissolves.
• Ms. Liberty – Liberty is not made of metal.
• Unknown to science – We have captured something we can’t identify.
• Obvious truths – We float on a stream of symbols.
• In a beaker – Even a brain in a beaker wants to know.
• Amorphous shapes – We are caught in a dream that we can’t wake up from.
• Central mystery – These are like the flickering of his eyes as the artist dreams.
• Flares – Ashes rising from a fire.
• Polychromatic blobs – They would be like us.
• A space – Here an eye, here a claw.
• Beauty in pain – The experience may be painful to experience but beautiful to behold.
• Hunter – The hunter merges with his prey.
• Once in a viewfinder – The photographer is not, literally, in this photograph.
• Chapter 4. Elusive objects
• Like a baby – Our dirty minds don’t see it as a tail or tusk.
• Uncomfortable act – The two are uncomfortably separated.
• Unreal objects – I can’t make an object that isn’t real.
• Prophecy – Our prophet is a pile of flower pots.
• Alter ego – My alter ego is the real me.
• Accidental sculptures – Accidents can create art.
• Closeups – Intense focus can evoke disturbing associations.
• Disagreeable objects – YOu don’t want some things on your face.
• Fearing the unseen – The unseen remains the things you fear.
• Deformed, dismembered, and reassembled – The parts of a woman should be treated with respect.
• Fertility – A statuette of a fertility goddess inspires.
• Incomplete – The object remains incomplete if you stand still.
• Not anatomy – Sculpture is not anatomy.
• Rocks – Water and wind carve monsters out of rock.
• A story – Here, the story relates true lives.
• Encrusted – The leather book cover tells a story.
• Fossil – The animal’s bones are broken.
• Fetish – Her fetish is trussed up like a roast duck.
• Hellacious – The work is not well described.
• Alien bugs – They look like alien bugs.
• In fur – She covered the teaspoon, cup, and saucer with fur.
• Perverse – We’ve tried to make it obvious.
• Different reactions – You should place yourself in the scene.
• Biased regulator – The eye of the metronome wagged.
• Spectre – Her eyelids are zippers, shut..
• Drawers – We all saw her drawers.
• Like bone – She is smooth like bone.
• Without life – An unworldly form appears.
• It’s not a house; it’s a home – A home should be limitless.
• Maze of string – Space divides us.
• Chapter 5. Desire
• Aubade – The next morning, bodies are just bodies.
• Curves – Her body curves the shadows.
• Landscape – A woman’s body is a landscape.
• Starfish – Starfish can blind the heart.
• Inherent – My lover is all over herself.
• Androgynous – The architecture of the body isn’t classical.
• Illusion – The figure’s lit to look like a bull’s head.
• Contorted – Her neck seems bent and elongated.
• Funhouse mirror – The model mirrors your distortions.
• Labeled – A being confesses labels like sins.
• Double exposure – Her motives are hidden.
• Messages – Messages appear everywhere before me.
• The same woman – Images of her frame the text.
• Hysteria – A woman needs to freely express herself.
• Realization of desire – The men listen for murmurs and sighs.
• The perfect companion – The construction of the perfect doll takes love.
• The doll – Parts are placed in deliberate contradiction.
• Dancing – Flowing legs dance in high heels.
• Alluring parts – Each of her curls is a girl.
• Amazons – Amazons battle against patriarchy.
• Capturing your soul – The old mirror seems to reveal your soul.
• Portrait arcade – The ball takes a different path each time.
• Woman in history – You may dream of a naked woman.
• Good from evil – She is a goddess of questionable morals.
• Dual elements – We exist in dual elements.
• Fine line – It’s not a fine line.
• Deliberately obscured – Victory could be pyrrhic.
• Chapter 6. Delirium
• Vitreous humour – The joke’s on you and your mama.
• Love over all – Love trumps privilege and ideology.
• Big toe – A big toes is a treatise on the species.
• Many amoebae – A man is but an enlarged amoeba.
• Traumas – You cling to your anxieties.
• Inextricably bound – There’s no help for how they make you feel.
• Looming forms – Fears assume fantastic forms.
• Struggling figures – Muscular bodies are her limbs.
• Not only on a pedestal – His wife sits on the wheelbarrow.
• Senseless – Bad dreams are not meant to accomplish anything.
• Civil wars – No wars are “civil.”
• Villain – The coachman doesn’t show his face.
• The many faces of Mr. K – Mr. K has many disguises.
• Insect rituals – Our own practices seem tame.
• Contrivance – This contrivance is intended to embarrass the women.
• Atrocity – The horror is that humans are capable of inhumanity.
• Lacking context – A lack of context disorients us.
• Mocked – War has orphaned everyone.
• Cruelty – The actors suffer.
• Random patterns – We say it’s random when we can’t see its pattern.
• Turbulence – We can hear ringing in our ears.
• Chapter 7. Infinite terrains
• Native poetry – It isn’t a genre.
• Transfer process – Complex forms appear.
• Butterflies – Butterflies are hopes.
• Cleansed – Water washed away my graces.
• Swirls – The first matter began as a swirl.
• Labyrinths – Remnants of primordial chaos remain.
• Grotesque – Vegetable and animal kingdoms grew from the same primordial muck.
• Disassembled – Space is disassembled.
• Intricacies in the soil – Creatures swarm in the fertile soil.
• Chaotic forces – We trace the forces of love.
• Orisha – We are conduits for the spirits.
• Dovecote – Its freedom always beckons.
• Shangri-La – I gather tokens.
• Voyage – The ship of the blessed has charted a voyage.
• Sacred tree – The tree grew from a crack in the rock.
• Mélusine – Wrappings of cloth conceal both good and embarrassing.
• Dark woods – Here are the dark woods.
• Toenail clippings – The gods live in the fifth dimension.
• Town in the Alps – The place has a personality.
• Identity – Identity arises from the most trivial aspects.
• Fears – Fears animate even folds of cloth.
• Unfinished – Its scaffolding remains erect.
• Memento mori – A bleached bone shows life’s delicateness..
• Majesty – She’s too big to be noticed.
• Childhood struggles – Children must struggle with monsters.
• Upstairs – Upstairs, the children do not sleep.
• Flower mirror – The mirror is a flower.
• Volume 3: Documents
• Chapter 8. Chance and freedom
• Handsome – She was as handsome as a chainsaw.
• Any other night – Stars filled the gutters like rain.
• Savant – She was born perfect and she grew up without blemish.
• It’s not paranoia – We are being watched.
• Protocols – I get nauseous with the formalities.
• Lying – No one lies while they’re dreaming.
• Experiments – We can’t prove it exists.
• Trances – Hidden meanings may stay hidden.
• Instincts – Humans pretend to be angels.
• Catch and release – Chance can trigger a moment of honesty.
• Without imposition – It would be better to avoid trying to relate.
• Subconscious – Juxtapositions unlock subconscious riches.
• Dream guidance – All dreams are equal; everyone is validated.
• Stream of consciousness – Words float on the water.
• Rational supposition – Rational thought is only an illusion.
• Plastic perfection – Would the perfect poem be like plastic?
• Don’t worry – The poem will rescue you.
• Division – Jesus came to bring division.
• Confusion – If you’re not confused, something’s wrong.
• Intention – Authorial intention is a bugbear.
• Glossary – Words are hidden virtues.
• Other musics – Overhead streetcar wires sing.
• Necessity and duty – Necessity and duty enslave the innocent.
• Myth of disarmament – Bullies must maintain their bravado.
• Conscription – It’s not an honor nor a privilege.
• Space – Freedom is not merely a blank page.
• Doubt – Doubt is the salt of your tears.
• Without a body – You were perfect, but you weren’t forever.
• Mythological origins – All origins are accidents.
• Reassurances – At least we can reassure each other.
• Doppelganger – You watch me in my sleep.
• Evidence – I discard evidence of my existence.
• Messed reality – Everything’s the wrong color.
• Hegemony – Others can find their own happiness.
• Errors – I’ve been tracking my errors.
• Light – Light isn’t a wavelength.
• Gods of the street – Strangers might be angels in disguise.
• En plein air – The purpose of art is the purpose of life.
• Revolution – We must liberate the spirit.
• Graffiti – Inequality breeds creativity.
• Automatic writing – Can it speak for itself?
• I see pareidolia – Sx b hundqqtomoup xosp h.
• Sabotage – We can give a worker a wooden shoe.
• Liability – What if everyone could choose?
• Freedoms – Could fashion ever be refashioned?
• Insubordination – Dreams follow no one’s orders.
• Humility – A soul possesses but isn’t possessed.
• Embarrassment – A free soul is unpredictable.
• Chapter 9. Poetics of vision
• Dream – We shared one mirror with two reflections.
• Reality – You tell me what’s more “real.”
• Mystery – Who was the dark man who wore the fedora?
• Spectacles – Pierre removed his clothes at the opera house.
• Accidents – I saw a rat run over on the street.
• Provocation – You won’t be led along a garden path.
• Natural state – Most of us don’t live in a natural state.
• Tea – We unmask the mountebanks.
• Ear-shoes – Ear-shoes would help nuns and priests.
• Enigma – This place is not titillating.
• Fear of metaphor – She’s like a hypnotist.
• A hand and a pen – Their work is done.
• Voyage – This is a voyage for the spice trade.
• A lei for a grave – You can lay flowers on the grave.
• Ego trip – Writing is rife with ego.
• Invisible lives – No exterior monologue testifies.
• Calligram – Everything in this box is true.
• Chapter 10. Elusive objects
• Familiar objects – Visitors will notice the authenticity.
• Virtual curating – Curators publish virtual guides to virtual museums.
• Artistic failure – Her teachers told her she was a failure.
• Perversion – King David was a poet and a dancer.
• Confessions – He said he wanted to confess.
• Failure of dialectics – Materialism, realism, and mysticism are all the same.
• Ouroboros – They say everyone in your dream is you.
• Irrational kind – We tend to make things as difficult as possible.
• Domestic objects – The things you own begin to seem alive.
• Muse – She’s what you were looking for.
• Fireworks – Behaviors may vary.
• Chapter 11. Desires
• Love at second sight – She wouldn’t have me criticize her hat.
• Loving like mad – Lovers are the archetypes of disobeying all restraints.
• Queens of the left hand – They are disapproved of in all the right circles.
• Impossible loves – He loved her like she’d never know.
• Free couture – Everyone here now wears what they like.
• Great men and women – Many unacknowledged men and women are great.
• On a pedestal – The magician fashions the shape of a beautiful woman.
• Viva l’hystérie – Hysteria’s a symptom of the psychiatrist’s lack of empathy.
• Love – Love’s like a disease that’s dreaming.
• Masks – I didn’t think I had been wearing a mask.
• Opaque minds – You can’t really see through a mirror.
• Empathy – The key to happiness is empathy.
• Economies – Economists should study artists.
• Etiquette – The purpose of etiquette is to deny our problems.
• Artificial happiness – There’s money in artificial happiness.
• Floral apparel – Women put ovaries on their hats.
• Ecstasy – Ecstasy dissolves barriers.
• Phantom – I had been defeated by a fantasy.
• Old wives – Even young wives get old.
• Falling – I dreamed I was falling.
• Predictable – If your muse were predictable, she’d be useless.
• Game of chance – You must ignore the odds in order to believe.
• Divination – A useful interpretation is evasive.
• Crazy love – It’s only love if it doesn’t need a reason.
• Lovely curves – They have turned to their own ways.
• Rowboat – She’s a rowboat on a small lake.
• Eye – The eye is a window.
• Anatomies – Photos don’t defecate.
• If I were me – I’d be less naïve.
• Powers – Would they work for good or evil?
• Aliens – Was it a difference that made a difference?
• Authoritarian thinking – Some are threatened because others are different.
• Chapter 12. Delirium
• Scandalism – I’ll support a cause only if I can help undermine it.
• Cinematography – I made a sentimental film.
• Patrimony – The classics shouldn’t be a means of suppressing arts and minds.
• Slavery – It’s your duty to doubt.
• Witnessing – We do our filming with with hidden cameras.
• Theory of memory – We soon get a large chest full of junk.
• Our war against ideas – Battle lines have always been drawn.
• Detestable beauty – A beautiful thing can be detestable.
• Squeamish – All our parts are edible.
• Theory of the unconscious – Let me tell you all about it.
• The rest of your brain – Your non-rational brain gives you a more honest picture of reality.
• Panacea – You should read more poetry.
• Loving too much – Nobody should be prosecuted for loving too much.
• Entrapments – When the mind’s trapped there’s no freedom.
• Violence against artifice – Is depicting violence invariably violent?
• Disorientation – Being disoriented could be a good thing.
• Imitation – I invite being imitated.
• Sanctimony – They accomplish nothingwith pious disapprovals.
• Paralysis – Anyone who can’t love others is paralyzed.
• Colonization – Capitalists continue the practices of the church and state.
• The institution – The church found a way around the teachings of Jesus.
• The irony of exploitation – You sink as soon as you think you’re above others.
• Escape plan – We should help anyone escape.
• Treason – Opposing slavery isn’t treason.
• Violence – Only comic-book villains are connoisseurs of violence.
• Notes on the subjective – I can only hope you understand.
• Uniform – We have a uniform for you.
• Consciousness – The proletariat can’t help thinking for themselves.
• Praying Mantis – The praying mantis isn’t praying.
• Black humor – Cruelty invites absurdity.
• My neurosis – My neurosis is your fantasy.
• Agents of war – The agents of war don’t care.
• She, too, dislikes it – Nobody wants to be lectured at.
• Freedom – You can’t teach freedom.
• Flexible profession – Professor without a position.
• Another world – I entered another world.
• Embracing contradictions – We’ve invited chaos for tea.
• Morality – We call for a morality that isn’t self-serving.
• Unacceptable – The unacceptable becomes acceptable.
• Breasts of the jungle – The breasts of the jungle find no prey.
• Chapter 13. Infinite terrains
• Skull rock – It was only big enough inside to crawl into.
• Natural world – The natural world isn’t wild.
• Dialectic method acting – I live in the world as I imagine it.
• Conversation with the inevitable – I know a man who calls death’s bluff.
• Wood – I’m reassured by the solidity of wood.
• Fake freedom – All the outward signs are easily faked.
• Unconfined – No walls confine me.
• A different Eden – I would paint a painting anyone could live in.
• Subterfuge – It’s like the perfect spy.
• Time games – No one gives you any good lines.
• Strangers – People travel to exotic places.
• Infinite landscape – The landscape that never ends is the one you believe in.
• Myth – Myth is a belief that you don’t believe in.
• In the beginning – Each word has a ghost.
• Observation of a seed – A seed is a form and a means.
• Good art – Good art’s genuine magic.
• Labyrinth – The future is a labyrinth.
• It’s not just a joke – Life is improbable.
• Mirrors – Mirrors can orient or disorient us.
• Masquerade – Dreaming of my father would be a masquerade.
• House of rooms – I live in a house with many rooms.
• Being famous – People think I’m famous.
• My own life – I have my own life.