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I’m gonna define “surreal” as “underflowing with life” Flow containers that signal more elan vital capacity than is actually flowing through them. That’s why “spaced out and disconnected” are good descriptions of the subjective state and why the paintings feel empty.
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Iirc think the art movement intended to express the individual/collective unconscious in a dream-like sense via juxtaposition if incongruous elements. This is consistent with my description in 3 ways.
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One: Dreams *are* an underflowing-with-life state since they occur in sleeping bodies capable of much higher flows when awake. Dreams hit conscious awareness but are not rich enough to fill it the way waking life is.
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Two: Incongruous juxtaposition is a sort of hoping-for-emergence thing. Maybe hidden unconscious significance will spark life? Similar logic to weird juxtaposition if ingredients in spells in witchcraft. Like Frankenstein monster assemblages but much less coherent.
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