Bessie A. Ficklen – Dream-Poetry (1891)
Brief introduction to an oneiricist aunty Every once in a while another hidden ancestor will pop up in the most unlikely of spots. We think it’s important to bring these missing links to light wherever [...]
Joël Gayraud – The Attic of the Abyss
It often happens that some confirmation signal comes in after one of our issues has wrapped up. We welcome this as an indication that the game is not finished, that the exploration continues, and that [...]
House of Mysticum
House of Mysticum, a surrealist group in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently launched a website to chronicle their collective activities. https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/
When the cat comes…
Kirsty Woods has started a new blog of marvelous "excess imagery" created by herself (and sometimes, Izzy the cat). http://whenthecatcomes.blogspot.com/
The Duck of Revolution Awakens
Dream of November 23, 2018: I am browsing the internet and come across a page entitled “Ducks of Cartersville”. The purpose of this page is to champion the revolutionary potential of ducks. I scroll the [...]
Mormyridean themes and games – an open letter…
A recent email from RW Spryszak allowed me to voice some thoughts on the question of Peculiar Mormyrid's themes and games, their uses and abuses... Hi RW, This has nothing to do with your sub [...]
Tourist Trap (1979) – Jason Abdelhadi
Automatic response after watching the film Tourist Trap (1979) Yes the broken manikin is the ending, this is a film about endings like all mannequins are in fact over and done with humans (wait, who [...]
I Wagered Deep On The Run Of Six Rats To See Which Would Catch The First Fire
"Penelope Rosemont once said, “in a sense, all outsider art is surrealist art…” And this was the singular inspiration for this collection. Here, Surrealists are teamed with stalwarts of Fluxus, renegades that have no compass, [...]
Mariusze Figle
Mariusze Figle, a surrealist emergence from subcarpathian Poland. You can check out their blog here. mushrooms-man on the bank of great water separating two black lands at the moment of vision
Postscript from the Microscopic Life
This microscopic moment was spotted on June 10, 2018 by Guy Girard who was accompanying Jason Abdelhadi and Amber Craig through the marché aux puces in Saint-Ouen. Photo by JA.
Fresh Dirt Surrealist Sympatica
http://www.fresh-dirt.us/ Fresh Dirt, the deep South’s newest artistic collective researching practicing Surrealism in the 21st Century, will host an exhibition & creative soire’ in May! The collective is an offspring of previous incarnations, it’s member’s [...]
You are walking along a city street when you step on a pulsating mass of meat. What happens next?
LaDonna Smith: As I step on a mass of meat on the sidewalk, it sucks me right into it, like quicksand! I struggle to break through only to be seriously sinking. Before I know it, [...]
Some Irrational Reviews of Universalizing Objects
A Green Ceramic Creature signed “Sharon MacDonald, H., 1914” Price: 1.99 This object seems very good for what it is. On the one hand it is clearly dog, but on the other, it isn’t at [...]
Joël Gayraud and Pierre Peuchmaurd
It's worth announcing two new French books for 2018 (and that will shortly be available in Québec): To start, the first ever reprint of surrealist poet Pierre Peuchmaurd's Plus Vivants Que Jamais, (with an introduction by Joël [...]