THE LANGAGE OF THE SOUL

"Dreams are crazy house mirrors by which the analyzer looks down into the engram bank."

LRH.

Andre Breton once said, " the marvellous is always beautiful", whereas Guillaume Apollinaire's motto was "I astonish".

The basis of the surrealists quest was to marvel, but as conceived by poets borne by the image, and charged with the desire to transmute the real.

Beauty had sprung out of a new source: surprise.

Victor Hugo said, "For Humanity and Nature, vision is observation; for Surnaturalism, vision is intuition."

Surnaturalism is an empty word and was invented by Victor Hugo.

The Surrealists had a clear desire to get beyond the real and to plummet the depths of the night: the unconscious and the dream.

The Surrealists believed that all our actions are a kind of Somnambulism, that is to say, answers to our questions while we are in a passive conscious state.

Somnambulist n.

Person who walks in his or her sleep.

The game was to no longer pay attention to the former rules. In photography, an object was placed completely out of context; it was the art of "practically nothing". Duchamp selected random objects from among the most common and presented them under another name as works of art.

In light from what I've discovered, and from what I've learned about Surrealism, I've now taken it upon myself to carry out a fresh, new challenge. Using just my camera phone and my very basic digital camera, I'm going to take images of everyday things or surroundings and transform them (with little, if any, interference) into the unfamiliar. I intend to peel back the layers of reality in the physical universe and expose it's true state. It will be bizarre, but it will be beautiful.

Here is an experimental shot that I've taken already that I see nearly everyday. The familiar has become unfamiliar!

The final collection will be featured on my sister website New Era Photography.

There is no right or wrong way of doing this. The interpretation is personal and the camera is merely acting as my third eye.

The world around us is like an immense poem waiting to be deciphered. Maybe, we have to decipher it like a cryptogram. It could be that photography is the key to deciphering the physical world around us; a tool to reveal its secrets. It will be interesting how my images will turn out. I'm confident it will reveal a world within a world; one that we are oblivious to, normally. Isamu Noguchi said, "When the adult would imagine as a child he must project himself into seeing the world as a totally new experience". I think I'll take the angle of perceiving the familiar world around me as a fresh exploration.