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Darwin's Manifesto II
Darwin Leon
Although I work with several styles of art, my favorite manner of artistic _expression is surrealistic. I am inspired by Surreality, the unconscious and subconscious reality beyond or underlying everyday common sense as well as intentional or willful 'rational' thought. Thus I share the Surrealist Movement's interest in the free, uncensored, "automatic" _expression of the irrational, paradoxical, and absurd aspects of life that provide us, if we are open to them, amazing insights into the unknown hence mysterious context that governs our behavior far more than we would like to admit. At the same time, I share the prehistoric and classical interest in the interpretation of the irrational by poetic and artistic means. Without this evolving interpretation of the unknown, interpretations, which take coherent forms in human art, we would not exist as human beings.
The imaginative surrealistic flight from apparent reality to Surreality fell out of fashion some time ago, in part because many surrealists were distracted by the attraction of the modern spirit to contemporaneity of fleeting fashion. In the blind adoration of the contemporary fetish, artists lost touch with the marvelous traditional hypostasis of their art. The post-modern world (a world incidentally foreseen by surrealists) offered such a bewildering plurality of incongruities to contemplate that people fled from the art of the amazing into contemporary conceptual cubicles adorned by the ornaments of modernolatry.
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