“It was as if the fire, or the germ to it, collapsed into itself, and in its place all that is terrible comes to the fore.
During the day I can hardly think out of rage, leeriness or guilt, let alone talk with anyone.
At night I am dying of fear, everything could be shattered.
Peace is such a distant notion, hardly recognizable during those dark days.
Perhaps it will be painting that pulls me out of these blows of frightful darkness and can put together the few stones that I no longer find in the empty world.
And if this does not work, at least I know for sure that it is not about to have an ego, but only to listen the call to life when faced with absolute nothingness.
My vision has once more turned inward.
I now can say rightly, I contemplate like the old pagan Apollonius, from within.”
Verbotenes Land (“Forbidden Land”), 1936
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The Forgotten Surrealist
“When people ask me why they’ve never heard #Dyn’s editor—Austrian painter, thinker, editor, and writer Wolfgang #Paalen—I feel we’ve succeeded in our curatorial mission.”
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