Graffiti Dreamer 

Graffiti Style Illustration

Surreal pictures often remind of dream situations. Dreams and surrealism have the same origin: The unconscious. Because of it they also have much in common: the unreal, the mysticism. But dream situations hardly provide material for surreal pictures. A great source of surreal imagery is automatic drawing. Surrealist automatism and automatic drawing was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious.

In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move ‘randomly’ across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. How close we are when thinking about the bridge between the surrealists and the graffiti “writers”? How rational is the graffiti? It’s the courage that makes the difference! Touch your dream – your graffiti dream. More real than any dream can be…

Published in NewWebPick #26 “Enthusiasm in Spring”