angst and augur

Surrealism is what metaphoric helixes are to language. Twist, bend, fragment a word from its root and whole new words, often with completely different meanings, are created.  Twist, bend, fragment, rotate an image and new series of images evolve, illustrating the extraordinary emergence of a new forms and ideas.

Surrealism is reality’s undulating ocean – it is a fluid space where dimension, perspective, and form merge to distance imagination from what we see to what distortion spawns.  It liberates perception, juxtaposes dualities, and harmonizes fantasy and reality.

rmsmith loves the eccentric gait of surrealism’s angst and augur, drawing on its heights and depths, she mixes styles and media.  Her paintings teem with unbridled passion and provocative imagery.  She has developed an ebb and surge style of moving an idea from abstraction, to surrealism, to realism, returning to surrealism, and into abstraction.