Ottawa Surrealist Group

Stromatomania

These cross-sectioned stromatolite remnants are traces of some of the oldest life forms on Earth, microbial mats that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. They were photographed in the Ottawa river near Champlain Bridge during a low water level period. You may notice when you gaze at them that they have a hypnotic quality and seem to stare back at you. We interpreted the images based on chains of paranoiac or associative play.

PP:
It was a portal of granite to a dimension of stone people. Their hair is like fibers of glass in their belly sand and mud conditioner. When they die, their grave monuments are made out of people.

L:
I. Evolution of the first vagina began with single-cellular life ages ago. Penises, a much more recent invention, would cum later, modeled on stone dildos. These life forms mated by sharing genes in their pre-cum, shortly before renting a U-haul and splitting up. Lesbians, you know.

II. This apotropaic glyph made it into the popular lore of the Ottawa Valley after a teacher who claimed she had an eye on the back of her head was charged with witchcraft and decapitated.

III. The golem looks through a microscope. “You see, all golems evolved from mud pies just like this!”

IV. While it appears to be a stromatolite, it is in fact the result of a dinosaur’s failure to make round pancakes.

JA:
I. The mineralization of the bikini-concept is going exactly according to plan. Some might call it the oldest pin-up poster in the geological record.

II. The concerned astronaut stuck his helmeted head into the black hole and ended up as a facial imprint in the proterozoic.

III. The phantom makes out with its own mask while awaiting the possibility of vertebrates down the line.

IV. Addressed to all future life: “I can hear everything you say. The ocean floors also have ears.”