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November 5, 2004
Nature is greatly abstracted according to the surrealist ideas of psychic automatism and dream imagery. If these are traces of the unconscious, then what of the eye?
Jean Miro, The Tilled Field, 1923/24. Oil on canvas
Miro's eye is a different eye to the Cartesian one that surveys nature to dominate, control and exploit.
Is Miro's eye the innocent eye that lies beyond the corrupted habitual vision of everyday life. The innocent eye of childhood's visionary wonder? That means a renewal of vision.
One that was not based on restoring a naive mimesis of childhood, but rather wrenching objects out of their normal contexts .
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