Crisis Of The Object

 

Max Ernst paraphrased the classic postulate of Lautreamont as ‘the fortuitous encounter – upon a non-suitable plane – of two mutually distant realities’ (Inspiration to Order). Here, a fruit-drying machine replaces the notorious sewing machine; an analogous object (octopus) replaces the umbrella and the ‘non-suitable’ plane of the dissecting table is replaced by a desolate landscape – in the background? Maldoror. Revised from Crisis of the Object, Letter of Introduction, 1972.

Illustration: Crisis of The Object III The Ducassian Encounter, 1972