Jul 052010
One of the primary techniques of the surrealist is the shadow, and/or the reflection. Both are ways of transforming ordinary object, or extraordinary objects into distortions of themselves, or to have the realistic subjects resemble something coming up from the so-called sub-consciousness (as it was called then); but which is really just a form of thought that will come to the tip of the tongue if we can talk without censorship. — Dave Beckerman from the new online book, Wiki-Dave.
Playing with patterns and shapes (of a structure in this case), takes the viewer on a dissociative journey beyond the ‘normal’ context in which it is usually seen. What was viewed one way is now not, the reference points somehow obscured or changed by the presentation of the whole or its parts in such a way as to render our preconceived perceptions useless at discerning vast new chasms of potential information. “It’s all in how you look at it” rings true in a vivid sense, overwhelming and re-contextualizing the path towards the ultimate pinnacle of our awareness.
I’ll never look at a puddle the same way again.
Nice picture Dave…Explanation superfluous