The lightning cube showed up on a crisp September 30th, 2002 during a San Geronimo Feast Day at Taos Pueblo. The clowns came out of the earth spreading over the surface of the Pueblo. All the kids shun the clowns to stay out of the wake of their glance, except the group of Mormon boys who watched the clowns excessively. The clowns eventually tied the brothers with their own ties and led them around on their own leash.
Daniela Sol (Talca, 1983) is a poet, mother and academic. Professor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Education, she completed her Master’s in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has a PhD in Hispano-American Literature from the University of Alicante, Spain.
Here’s the situation: the world is ending and people are singing their heads off. All the songs are raw. And all the melodies are unglued. How does grass become milk it’s a miracle. Mainstream is the prevailing mown lawn here except now the sidewalks are cracked and people want to sell their homes to get away from the homeless.
My creative process begins every morning out of psychological necessity. Drawing, painting, creating divinatory objects and poems.
I always knew that art would be part of my life. In one form or another. I was born in 1986 in Normandy, during my childhood I suffered from school phobia, then from anxiety disorder in adolescence. Imagination, poetry, drawing have always been a kind of protection against the chaos that reigns outside. My father …
Gary Cummiskey is a poet and publisher living in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the founder of Dye Hard Press, which he started in 1994.
Uche Nduka was born and raised in Nigeria. Poet, percussionist, essayist, and lecturer.
“The time will come to assert the ideas of women at the expense of those of men, whose failure is consummated so resoundingly today. It is up to the artist in particular, if only in protest against this scandalous state of affairs, to make everything that arises from the feminine system of the world as …
Utopia is Feminine and the Morning Star Enrique De Santiago Read More »
Hunting for the sound
In the relation between circles
Grooves and ridges
On the surface of a disk.
Well, that’s where I shelter, and where I rescue the omens, there I drink from the Paleozoic salts, which today move the migratory herds,
those who come to the eyes without ears, of those attending Sunday services. By nature, I approve!!
I discovered Photomorphosis way back in 1972 while attempting to copy an illustrated article in the Times magazine article on Yves Tanguy on an office copy machine. At night, in the dark. A clandestine maneuver. Photomorphosis is the enchanting process by which an organism changes or experiences metamorphosis under the influence of light… It is …
Mycelial Visions is a work that I have been maturing for months and that deals with the wonders and mysteries that the Fungi Kingdom contains, a name that is used to designate a group of eukaryotic organisms where fungi or mushrooms, molds and yeasts are found. This kingdom is one of the 5 great ones …
When I chose to fill my life with artistic creation… I was only an adolescent. I remember the moment. well, I was 14 years old and felt suddenly consumed by a desire, a need to draw… Since when I havebeen using all the artistic mediums within my reach: drawing, painting, embroidery, collage. A part of …
Silence of Forgotten Faces and Feelings by Anne Bernasconi Read More »
The Left Handed Artist Richard Gessner’s short story, paintings and drawings A man’s sense of smell is reversed so fragrances smell like stenches and vice versa. His nose has dyslexia. To skip through a field of lilacs in early spring is equivalent to being tethered to a corpse during the high heat of summer. The …
I had the desire to paint and draw very early on but I didn’t practice much because I didn’t have any confidence in myself.I was not attracted by academic drawing, I was self-taught and I did not know how to draw.It took me a long time to find my way, I had to hold on, …
The self is the unconscious and conscious that allows you to enter these imaginary worlds of creation, that is why it is important Bueno el yo es el inconsciente y consiente que te permite entrar a estos mundos imaginarios de creación por eso es importante I knew when I entered the experimental artist school and …
Formulas in Liminal Space by René Fernando Ortega Villarroel Read More »
I’ve been making art my entire life, I actually remember my 1st studio was a closet in my bedroom, I probably was about 6 or 7 years old There are many different kinds of artists in my family from lacrosse stick makers, stone carvers, beadwork artist, leather workers and of course painters I paint my …
My name is Shahd El-Khouly and I am a Egyptian visual artist. I study psychology and art. Psychology is my passion. I spend most of my time with art, artists and studying psychology because it is a science that deserves every minute we spend reading and searching for it. I also participated in many exhibitions. …
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How do you put yourself into a trance or into a place that’s receptive to the subconsciousness? I find the act of drawing in itself to be trance inducing. I first became obsessed with automatic drawing in high school because it felt like it would light up my brain and smooth out all of my …
Gerald Stone’s roots flow from 1/2 Seminole and 1/8 Cherokee tribes: These worlds are, out of time, landscapes within landscapes, tribes, spirits, watchers, seekers, giants, red-haired women, murdered and missing, space stretched and bent, stories vibrating across time. From a show at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento a write-up describes Gerald Stone as a “beloved …
our birthright is to know our brain and to become aware of the impact of meteorites on our language.
In this illusory questto survival, I abstainto say your name.In this twilight worldwhere everything freezes;inevitably.I watch this glowon the horizonof our extinction The human being dreaming of the world of tomorrowPoison the last rivers;Who was already feeding him more.In a deafening silence;Consumes;What it is no longer:human And as in every moment, the eternity of a …
Born Under a Radioactive Transit: Art and Poems by Alicia Lasne Read More »
Limulus, is my favorite arthropod, it’s the oldest species on the planet. I’m thinking about sex 24/7. Raging hormonal beach Paradises stretch on infinitely into horny horizons. The sight of beautiful fertility Goddesses is always more pleasant to behold than old men covered with craters of acne scars, or Syphlytic doomsday warthogs with copper sulfate …
Full moon in Capricorn, Erotic Drawings by Richard Gessner Read More »
P.D. Newman is an independent researcher located in the southern US, specializing in the history of the use of entheogenic substances in religious rituals and initiatory rites
THE GNOSIS OF THE MIRAGE “Relativity makes distance meaningless, but the situation is even worse when quantum mechanics intervenes, since it questions the idea of place.”Paul Davis. Of the clouds contained for centuriesof the air that winds the violet knot of meaningAnd of every dark shape that embraces the sound of the worldthe lit line …
The Gnosis of the Mirage and other Poems Enrique de Santiago Read More »
Two distant skies cover hopes united by noble commitment. The attractive conviction settles in the memory and encourages the shared future. To be one in this chaotic transit and capture the inevitable reunion, there is the powerful meaning In the unknown, we metIn hope, we agreeIn conviction, we unite and dreamIn determination, we projectWe have …
A call in the language of stars by Felipe López Osses Read More »
The certainty about our origin is in the bones. 21st-century Surrealism seeks universality while understanding the mind. We aspire to explore inner space together. From caves, dream temples, and pyramids of antiquity to the temporal lobes in our brain, our movement is a collage that devotes serious effort to be sympathetically aware of connections between …
Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism in the Institut Français d’Egypte à Alexandrie Read More »
How would you describe your painting process and your associative relationship between concepts, events, or mental states of the subconscious? Is there a link between self-hypnosis and inspiration? Artists, writers, and poets such as Garcia Lorca, Roberto Matta, Henri Michaux, and even Anais Nin have inspired me to paint. Language, for me, comes first, but the …
Poem read and written by Ceci NahuelpanguiTiltil, June 2022 read at Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel Mental Labyrinths Opening with dancer Giannina Canessa/Poema leído y escrito por Ceci Nahuelpan, Junio 2022 leído en René Fernando Ortega Villarroel Apertura de Laberintos Mentales con la bailarina Giannina Canessa Everything tells us that we are in seed times… The …
At 6 years of age, I began to transfer my inspiration and imagination to paper using tempera paint, with the guidance and teaching of my grandfather Pablo Amaringo, over the years I learned to use the technique of acrylic painting on canvas. Today I paint in acrylic and oil, the visions of ayahuasca and neo …
non-fungible token
sunthemata
with numbers
I am a verb on a switchboard, placement wrong side of town or
a substandard decimal point
Every time I ordered my papers I found these poems that correspond to my years of militancy in the communist youth under the period of the dictatorship, which in my personal case took place between 1979 and 1989 Already a couple of years ago, around 1977, my concern for writing verses had been awakened, and …
Poemas Clandestinos 1978-1989 Enrique de Santiago Read More »
Where does the inspiration come from to paint vivacious ‘swollen icons’ or Zaftig female figures? My inspiration to create these characters comes from beautiful Trauma. I had a sexualized childhood and have very vivid recollections of intense moments that shaped my life and artistic aesthetic. My voluptuous women are inspired by the Latin women I …
Swollen Icons and Beautiful Trauma the Erotic Art of JC Bravo Read More »
My art is a way for me to navigate difficult subjects and emotions, and as I work on each piece, I am able to meditate on, process and organize my emotions about the subject matter I am addressing. I started really getting into art after finishing a five-year enlistment in the US Navy. I spent …
HER And from beyond the intellect comes beautiful love trailing her skirts, with a glass of wine in her hand.RumiFrom above with his selenite lovedescends the brief nomenclature of desirein her diamond lustkissing in purple intervals the waves that announce your stepswith your coming laughto testify about the rainand in the nyctalope depthsin its germinal …
Patriarchal Decadence and Her by Enrique de Santiago Read More »
An automatic drawing is the starting point for an image. A powerful sense of promised adventure arises and the process of freely transferring the drawing onto the canvas will trigger an opening of doorways to another world. Nothing can be forced and it’s similar to a two-way conversation with the developing image before me. I …
The faceless figures in Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel’s work open a doorway to our silhouette. Las figuras sin rostro en la obra de René Fernando Ortega Villarroel abren una puerta a nuestra silueta. A labyrinth that challenges realities between an all-knowing self and a unicursal passage of selves. Un laberinto que desafía realidades entre un …
Mental Labyrinths Laberintos Mentales/Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel Read More »
05/14/21cosmic fires burnbehind the rich, black fabric of the nightwhich parts to let the magic passas particles of filtered lightthe door lies open, the gate lies closedlife travels, small and swiftthrough tiny tearsa missing stitchand life. the flow itselfthe tear itselfthe seama sight of seeming deaththat folds, unfolds itselfin weeds of griefand swaddles itselfand for …
Taking the Auspices, Magic and Poems Hazel Cline Read More »
Oscar Barra was Born in Santiago in 1964, he studied Art at the University of Concepción, co-founder of Grisalla, an outstanding group of artists from the 90s and early 2000s. Mainly dedicated to painting, he has extended his creation to engraving, sculpture and the drawing. He currently resides between Concón and also maintains a workshop …
Edited by Miguel Ángel Huerta Zuñiga My work can be framed within the current of surrealism; it is figurative, fantastic and is characterized by a detailed drawing and the absence of perspective, flat volumetry. There are an imaginary of beings and biomechanical artifacts that originate in dreams I had repeatedly as a child that generate …
Fantastic Surrealism from the South of the World Oscar Barra Read More »
Written by Miguel Ángel Huerta Zuñiga Alejandra López Riffo is an artist whose work fuses the visual arts and poetry in a perfect way. Alejandra builds an imaginary bridge that results in the beautiful hybrid of visual poetry. An echo very few artists achieve. Possessing a technique exquisite and clean. We are introduced into imaginary …
The Visual Poetry of a Shamanic Cartoonist Alejandra López Riffo Read More »
In 2009 I started a correspondence with Chilean painter and Surrealist Miguel Ángel Huerta Zuñiga. When I first saw his work I was surprised he was expressing a deep exploration into the animistic mind like I was. Later that year in November, Miguel invited me to join El Umbral Secreto the first Surrealist Exhibition in …
Hunter of Images and Energies the Art of Miguel Ángel Huerta Zuñiga Read More »
Psychic automatism by Andrew Mendez 2022 If the notion of compassion is missing, this leads to darkness.. forgiveness is the letting go. It opens the space for the surreal. It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is else where. What’s the need of a new manifesto if we have yet …
I find inspiration and magic in François Cauvin’s works. Many of his paintings can make the viewer more open to the mysteries of nature. This begins as a desire to remember our self while dreaming. As a native of Haiti you grew up in a family of artists, musicians and poets. Who were they and …
Art and Poems Written by Enrique de Santiago The scientific world wonders where the boundary between matter and antimatter begins. That is, where does the surreal begin? For this we must know the secrets expressed in the Emerald Tablet, where the borders of the vibratory spaces are not represented, since they do not exist, since …
Path of Light, Shadow of a Circle. Visions and Poems by Enrique de Santiago Read More »
What were the influences that made you interested in surrealism? I began with the adventure of painting, a distant day at the beginning of the 80’s. At that time I did not know what Surrealism was, but my painting already contained the emotions coming from the automatism that supplied me with the imaginary of the …
“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy…” 1. What drives a man bombing in Nashville OD’ed on your toilet That RV so cheap pathetic really— When you get lonely you can always go downtown downtown Does anyone need to know more about America Than the name Anthony Quinn Warner Or that our history is unknowable …
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy and other poems by MacLean Gander Read More »
My Father at 92 There is so much you don’t know aboutAfter being dead for fifteen years. This virus is terrible—it has deranged the world.We won’t know for a while how that will work out. The civil rights thing is interesting now—Overt racism is as bad as it has ever been, But some of it …
Reading Richard Gessner’s book The Conduit and Other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy was like drawing a tarot card out of a magical deck. Reading it triggered a rare recollection of sensations into a neural pattern of synesthesia. These infrequent and unusual bits of writing guides the reader into a dream time, a metamorphosis that …
we Interrupt the regularly scheduled program, to bring you this important message, this wireless emergency alert has scanned and detected globular lightning behaving like intelligent light
it is a super kind of role, rotating archetypes, where number equals avatar, all four won once, if you want to get elemental, around the table
occurring at intervals, periodically
artificial neural network neurons are aggregated image input visual cortex layers and magic squares number and color spaces
my non representational paintings are automatic impressions from my subconscious. a sort of interior psychic meteorology. I work on them everyday. there are no things, no pronouns, no gender, no politics, no beliefs, no morals. no 17th 18th, 19th or 20th century archetypes, no mystical ideas, no ideas about beauty or ugliness, no appropriation, no …
organize the snakes, pluck strings
divide the wave to the pedal point
a step, a diesis, a key signature
target a center, ignition
sociocultural linguists, neuro-linguistic programming, book burning, next murdering ideas, ultimate authority, gender self-determination
Every culture has experienced cannibalism, headhunting and parasites. This intrusive painting is about those things but thankfully it’s all metaphorical. In this painting I use figures of speech to convey malignant narcissism and greedy tendencies as a psychic virus. While no specific group or person is targeted it is important to be aware of the …
the cup reflected by the Pisces moon was the rim where I sip the moon’s abundant helium, I followed my paws
my cursive thought wrapped around some thing joined together possession loss
