There may well be no schizophrenic brain, but there definitely does seem to be a schizo experience of objects, persons, landscapes... the issue, for me, is that this ought not be said, least of all in paint.LukeIs there anything you read that you look at and think "yes" that is me, myself, as a genius?LukeOr defective detective?We do seem to know some stuff; mostly the rest is decorative?LukeI'm a covert realist myself :)> words to that effectThey work for me. So not rhetorical then...LukeBecause the social world of power that I experience is complex, though brutal in its simplicity; incoherent, though authoritarian; inimical to psychological need though ready to gratify base drives.Or words to that effect.DaveOn 4 September 2018 at 15:19, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:So why are you using surrealist techniques? For complexity, incoherence, psychological needs?LukeI've had extensive dealings with Yodel and its complaints service lately and would suggest that it covers both post-surrealism and devices meaningfully combining into incoherence very nicely indeedy-deed.DaveOn 4 September 2018 at 11:56, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Ok so what I'm working with is: devices meaningfully combining into incoherence.A very good example of that meaningfulness would be any parody of closure... but it works with e.g. Imagism, I think, too; a collage that makes no literal sense but is still meaningfulLukesounds like a good thing!LukeI tend to describe myself in general as a post-surrealist, or at least I prefer that to some other things I get called - the problem is it is a very wide ranging 'post'On 4 Sep 2018, at 10:09, Luke wrote:Sorry, a little drunk there...
I'm trying to find a starting point from which to say a poem works, rather than does something I like or feel I should. A specific type of 'verisimilitude', does that make sense?
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