Breton: inevitable and unknowable

Viewed through the lens of the automatique surrealism—automatic painting or drawing—the work reads like an organic meditative exhalation from the unconscious.

There is no clear horizon or spatial hierarchy, and this spatial ambiguity lets the viewer’s eye wander and see their own projections. The foliage becomes spectral, a camouflage of meanings. Forms are suggested, not defined, as if plucked from the liminal space and energy between the synapses of memory or  dreaming. It is a place where metamorphosis reigns.

The swamp here is not literal—it is a metaphor. It is a place where memory thickens in the authentic gesture of interior truth—a lyrical composition of emotion, sensation, expressed in colors, forms and brushstrokes.  This is possibly what Breton called the arresting quality of an image that seems inevitable and unknowable at once.

Paintings below are first created using ink and watercolor on rice paper. Then I layer the piece with digital filters and overlays.