It
was a long traumatic mental journey. The nerve of fictionalizing Impressionism,
Dadaism and then Surrealism was weird, bizarre may be uncalled for. But once
started I could not hold back.
It
was a big challenge as Surrealist works feature the element of surprise,
unexpected juxtapositions and an abrupt, illogical, unexpected turn.
That
was a trap.
I
began to read and while going through few of the surrealist history I got to
know about Automatism. I was amazed when I saw André Masson Automatic Drawing.
So
I thought may be the surrealism started with Automatism as in his painting (!)
all he did was to let his pen flow freely to express itself ….(and many
time ,my pen also directs everything …so actually it’s not me, it is my pen (or
the key board) doing all the creative work.
The
end product may become something like an encrypted maze or a labyrinth very
hard to decipher. After this observation my characters started to see some
light inside the zigzag puzzle it was in.
‘Eureka’: One of the characters said who was
entrapped inside the topoema’s created many decade ago by Nobel
laureate Octavio Paz
That’s why while trying to fictionalize
Surrealism, I found out the very core meaning of being myself. While expressing
oneself in some ISM can be a prisoner’s experience; handcuffed by limitations
of definition, boundaries, time and space. Meaning of any ‘isms’ we
should be free and spontaneous.
So
the character tried to break free from the rule.
Let
the freedom rule over my pen (or the key board, now days) as these are my only
weapon in my fight against the organized cliché.
I
flipped through my dairy and found resonating verse I wrote may be 15 years
back.
Is
read:
Breaking the
Linguistics rule
Holding the pen
Unplanned
If we could build a new scenario,
Undefined Characters, Society,
Avenues, shores, cities, songs and others.
Spontaneous but sovereign;
And without a reason,
Every incident
Every moment,
Everyone,
Every day!
Dismissing mental calculations for ever,
Flowers
Colours
Rivers & clouds.
Whatever, whenever!
Also read DADA, Impressionism
'The collected Poems of Octavio Paz'1957-1987 (New directions publication p334/648
ReplyDeleteIn Authors note about the topoema above (Palm of the traveler )it was written 'A tree (Ravenala madagascarieensis)whose leaf are arranged in a peculiar fan like shape .The Sheathing leave base from receptacles in which considerable quantities of water are stored,and hence the name.
wow!
ReplyDeleteThe story is now a part of Singhadwar an Assamese novel created out of parallel stories …Few readers are asking what is this fictionalization ,the answer can be that out here I have taken the spirit of surrealism as a theme of a story ,its not an academic writing on surrealism .
ReplyDeleteThe criticism can be:-it’s a misrepresentation,
Answer will be: Why?
Why should we handcuff anything under tight handcuff of definition?
Creative fiction asks for interpretation ,and this is my interpretation of the theme