~ Editorial Assistants ~

Abbigail Baldys
@SP_AbbigailB

For me, Surrealism is a way of navigating and suturing the oppositional elements of experience; through surreal imagery, contradiction —a crux of limitation— is permitted to have its waking dreams. -AB

 

Joseph Ellison Brockway
@JosephEBrockway​

For me, Surrealism is a way of living. Surrealism frees inhibitions, illuminates the un-seen, beautifully corrupts so that a person can experience the uncanny beauty of the world, to which many have been blinded by societal norms. To accept that the heart doesn’t always have to be painted red; to accept that up can sometimes be down and in can sometimes be out; to smell clouds pass and hear flowers wilt; to sense fully; to walk in reverse; to undo society’s brainwashing and understand as a child . . . that is Surrealism. -JEB

 

Julie Cyr
​@SP_JulieCyr

For me, Surrealism combines one's dream world and interior life with the exterior to create a new reality. It's through this reality that we can see connections not dictated by reason, but by pure unfettered expression bringing a writer or artist to the place of the “marvelous” and thereby, artistic freedom. -JC

 

Tim Lewis
​@Tim1ewis

​For me, Surrealism is being called into a mood against meaning—not a fleeting, bourgeois desire for randomness delivered by the dream rebus, but a genuine compulsion for the intervention in Ideas. The mark of the poet working in Surreal terms is represented by a thorough abandonment of Self, allowing for the recognition of temporality's layering. To becoming-in-Surreal involves experience with communication: A sovereign humility to bring another to the cliff of meaning and demonstrate the lunacy of the Real by bounding-off the side of the finite into non-knowledge. -TL