These watercolors were created through the application of water-soluble
colored inks onto the paper, which were then 'bled' with a wet
brush. In some cases, the inked page was completely doused in
order to encourage the bleeding of the colors. Next, dark ink
was either haphazardly brushed or spattered onto the page, leading
to random and possibly imaginitive shapes. After the page was
dry, I then stared at it, searching for suggestive and sometimes
anthropomorphic shapes to arise, whose outlines were then accentuated
with a pen.
This
process is nothing more than "willful halloucination," a
variant of the Paranoiac-critical method of
Salvador Dali (a surrealist whose works from 1925 to 1937 smacked
of invincible genius, revolutionizing the world of visual perception),
which he defined as "a spontaneous method
of irrational knowledge based on the systematic objectification
of associations and delirious interpretations."* In
other words, paranoiac critical activity is a way of photographing
the mind as it unconsciously and automatically attempts to make
sense of chaotic, natural and/or seemingly random environments,
whether they be inked pages, brain-spattered walls, or perhaps
the pits and striations of a rocky cliff. For surrealism, this
highly flexible technique is one of the core processes used to
subvert the world of conscious reality!
*To
learn more, read Dali's 1935 essay, "The Conquest of the Irrational."
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