Base Matter
Meret Oppenheim. As a starting point for believing in this body of work, the viewer must use the historical beginnings of surrealism. Wikipedia notes "Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.[1] Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or surreality." Finding myself on the same knives edge requires that I expose reality against my expression of an absolute reality. These works compile a base matter of interior latex house paint in shades of calming blue against gloss black acrylic and shards of iridescent and star shaped craft glitter on NY Times newspaper pages, uncut. In my now, the dream is like a skin, a mirror reflecting particles of dust that reflect the actual illuminator, which in this moment is the realization that there are no more frontiers. To resolve this condition, the female body has become a frontier in the psyche of strongmen, wannabe dictators. My ideas and work, claim my inhabited self: female and occupied defended forever.