Automatic Writing at the Dallas Museum of Art

There was an "art talk" about surrealism at the DMA on Thursday, Dec 28th. Attendees were shown Magritte's Light of Coincidences and asked to do some automatic writing (a la Andre Breton). Here's some of our work. :)

Have them brought to you, have them brought to you. Am I something so highly evolved, so precious I cannot go for the paper myself.

Maybe this pen makes me the box of Aphrodite, trapped in a box [this square page], unable to move, unable to move away.

How does this manual impotence reconcile itself with the creative ability? Incomplete or overflowing? Amputated or extended, into everything, everyone?

Pulling objects & ideas out of stream of conciousness & placing them into a painting.

going, going, gone

Take off, hoser. Labels and lapels dressed in their best. Giddyup there pardner. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. Grab your six-shooter & fire up a storm.

Mindless wandering wayward flippantly flapping into favorable holes & stoke the stove with stammering lifters slap happy sausages & snax... flip pancakes immersed in butter... shudder.

Thick black soot on heavy hands. Cats yawn fat colors laughing behind rusty hinges happy underwear for us all.

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