Why Surrealism

l started to look at surrealism in art because of the way they tend to have a dreamlike quality to them. Some have identifiable elements which in many instances have been distorted or taking out of context.

From what l understand of it is that the work intends to depict images in a way thoughts occur without the restraints of reason. Without being restricted by what society think looks right. A part of me wishes that l had looked at it a little earlier and approached the whole project from that perspective. Not too sure whether it would work, there is no harm intrying. l quite like the idea of hanging some floppy clocks on the lean tree outside of Athaleahs room, that is from Jesses shots. When l saw this picture again it reminded me of the lean tree outside Jesses shot.

Hidden meanings. ln the piece The persistance of memory the one with the melting clocks, l like the idea that it is not the hands on the clock that identify time passing by but it is the melting of the watches that takes on that role. In Jesses shot there is a lean tree, but in Athaleahs shot there is a very lush tree. From my perspective this metaphorically symbolises the difference between the two of them.



















"it is not me who is the clown, but this monstrously cynical and so unconciously naive society, which plays the game of seriousness in order better to hide its madness"

Salvador Dali
















"soft clocks are nothing other than paranoid-critical, tender, extravagant camembert abandoned by time itself"

Salvador Dali