La última exposición surrealista del año tiene lugar hoy mismo, en la Galería
Carmen Coronada de Cádiz.
Expone Eric Bragg, y acompañamos las imágenes con su texto sobre este
hallazgo en las estructuras de toba del Mono Lake.
Capturing the image of the calcium carbonate tufa structures
mimicking Millet's farmer couple was a chance event that
occurred during the photography of these natural, geological formations in
California, and the suggestive imagery was only identified several
hours after the photo was taken. Instead of presenting a symbol
of death (the casket overpainted by a basket, as revealed by
the Louvre's 1963 x-ray analysis instigated by Dali) that appeared between
the farmer and his wife in the original painting by Millet, the Mono Lake
photo suggests a sprouting phallic image rising between the
couple, perhaps as a psychological displacement of the original pitchfork,
as well as serving as an interpretative, transformative symbol of
regeneration, in contrast with the original symbolism intended by Millet and
modified by Dali. Perhaps this image also demonstrates the self-propagating
contagiousness of obsessive, subjective interpretation: my obsession with
Dali's obsession of Millet's original obsession, that ultimately approaches a
timeless moment of both erotic anguish and hope.
Eric Bragg
