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\"Squint,<\/a>

Squint, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/a>, the poet and founder of the original Surrealist movement, conceived of an aesthetic of “convulsive beauty” founded on sensory echoes and ironies, and random conjunctions of things that become evocative in the mind. \u00a0As an example of the latter he offered a famous line from the proto-surrealist 19th century writer Isidore Ducasse, AKA Comte de\u00a0Lautr\u00e9amont:<\/a> “Beautiful as the encounter of a sewing machine with an umbrella on a dissection table.” \u00a0There is a terrifying randomness about the world, but the mind with which we sense this randomness is a powerful generator of meaning or significance, a machine for recognizing patterns and extrapolating them into grand intuitions of unity or into destructive paranoid delusions.<\/p>\n

This post is a collection of photographs of evocative random juxtapositions.<\/p>\n

\"Planter<\/a>

Planter and Racket, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The sculptural form of objects may be revealed when they come into relation with other objects.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Red Glove, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Did you hear that the elusive giant squid has finally been captured on video?<\/p>\n

\"Chelsea<\/a>

Chelsea Gallery, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

A person is always part of a scene, defined by that scene.<\/p>\n

\"Chef,<\/a>

Chef, 2012, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The contemporary scene is replete with images of desire, but such images always exist in relation to a down and dirty real world.<\/p>\n

\"Shoes,<\/a>

Shoes, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

In our fantasy, we soar like nature.<\/p>\n

\"Dance,<\/a>

Dance, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

We are colorful and emotional, in a world of stone and steel.<\/p>\n

\"Tiers,<\/a>

Tiers, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

We make images to express ourselves. \u00a0These images are subject to the changing weather of the world, as are we.<\/p>\n

\"Eye<\/a>

Eye of the Storm, 2006, photo by Fred Hatt\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Our monsters and our goddesses loom always over our chaotic streets.<\/p>\n

\"Hannibal,<\/a>

Hannibal, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"23,<\/a>

23, 2007, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Departure,<\/a>

Departure, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Our images of frenzy and rage loom over our calm streets.<\/p>\n

\"Eras,<\/a>

Eras, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bar<\/a>

Bar Pizza, 2012, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Worlds, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

We desire exuberance and extravagance, but the world we create is extravagant mainly in its wastefulness.<\/p>\n

\"Foofy<\/a>

Foofy Dogs, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Route,<\/a>

Route, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Can the magnificence of nature be distilled in a material object?<\/p>\n

\"Ansel<\/a>

Ansel Adams at 100, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Can desire be rendered in glowing pixels?<\/p>\n

\"T<\/a>

T Loc, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Can an image endow righteousness with glamour? \u00a0(The ad on the left side of this phone shelter is for the Brad Pitt\/Angelina Jolie film Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/em>. \u00a0The ad on the right promotes a Billy Graham evangelical revival tour.)<\/p>\n

\"Omission,<\/a>

Omission, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Can eros and thanatos be printed up and pasted on the wall, to win our attention?<\/p>\n

\"Hottie<\/a>

Hottie and Monster, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Can I seduce you with extravagance? \u00a0Do you like it artificial, or natural?<\/p>\n

\"Hair<\/a>

Hair and Trunk, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you like clarity, or mystery?<\/p>\n

\"Mind<\/a>

Mind & Spirit, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything we can construct reflects everything that constitutes its environment.<\/p>\n

\"Urban<\/a>

Urban Hair, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything we can envision is distilled out of what we already know.<\/p>\n

\"Mind's<\/a>

Mind’s Eye, 2006, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

We love love and pleasure, and we love rage and destruction.<\/p>\n

\"Rapture,<\/a>

Rapture, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Power is the ultimate fantasy. \u00a0Decay is the ultimate reality.<\/p>\n

\"Marriage<\/a>

Marriage with Bullets, 2012, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fix<\/a>

Fix the Problems, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything that has an opposite exists only in relation to its opposite. \u00a0There is no life without death, and vice versa. \u00a0They are two surfaces of a membrane.<\/p>\n

\"Closed-Nepo,<\/a>

Closed-Nepo, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Our world is nothing but numbers, and nothing but aliveness.<\/p>\n

\"171-Five,<\/a>

171-Five, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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