Surrealist automatism

While I am no art historian, I have tried to educate myself in the subject. I don't know if it has any impact on my photography but it can't do any harm, either.

Last spring I spent a couple of weeks in Madeira, and there, in a small village (which was not so likely place for a lovely museum of modern art) was an exhibition of Man Ray's photographs. There I had a short love affair with surrealism, and it seems that I just can't get over it.

One of the most peculiar thing related to surrelism was the idea of automatic drawing (or painting, or drawing) which liberated art from rational control. On the other hand, it might be not so strange after all: think about all what psychoanalysis has said about the unconscious, or even things like free jazz improvisation.

It came to my mind that it would make a great exercise when you are feeling stuck - just shoot randomly and without limits whatever your camera happens to see.

Since I am more than stuck this moment, almost paralyzed, I spent some time splashin' around and out came this. It remains me of Roschard's test pictures, somehow. And what does it express?

Frankly, I don't have a clue.