Surrealism

Surrealism
"The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot” Andre Breton – surrealist poet and writer

Surrealism is an art movement born of the strange and unusual. The notion of surrealism conjures up worlds unlike anyone has envisioned before. To create with this style is to prize the random, the accidental, and the absurd. Surrealistic writing comes from letting go of the controlling of words and ideas. Through the use of surrealism miraculous surprises will emerge from the random combination of words, sentences and visual images. We will work with a variety of techniques to break down any ideas you have about how the world exists. Through uncontrollable writing and word games a new language will begin to develop. In a sense you will be reinventing the world through language.

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Mike Dulin is an anthro-journalist/poet/playwright/conceptual artist living north of Richmond, Virginia on an art-farm known as Dudetown. Along with writing poetry and composing journalistic pieces exposing culture and environment relations; Dulin is also the producer, writer, and director of an independent, surrealist theatre group called PunkSinatra. His work focuses on communication and understanding across all boundaries -- mainly through the use of common cultural symbols.
Dulin is also a visual art critic for STYLE weekly, a program leader with ART180, and an instructor of English Composition at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.