Interaction

“Unexpected juxtapositions play an important role in Surrealism – so much so that they can be described as a foundational principle: “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table,” as Lautréamont so pithily put it. In 1924, André Breton quoted that line in the First Surrealist Manifesto. The surprise encounter between otherwise entirely unrelated things gives rise to a something else – a brain-teasing conundrum that fires our imagination and takes our thoughts in unexpected directions. …”