"We are finally emerging from years of experiencing harsh realities we could never have fathomed. Our entire world shut down, we’ve seen some very ugly sides of humanity and when reality becomes too real, that’s when we need to escape to fantasy," artist Carmen Ellis told Eyeswoon.com.
"Surrealism is breaking free from rules and structures, breaking free from the logical world. After years of rules and confinement, we are craving the escape that is surrealism."
The merging of the absurd with our reality delivers an unexpected dose of optimism and brings some lively fantasy to our current environments. No wonder the art world recently started utilizing surrealism in design to add more beauty and mystery. "Even after almost 100 years of changing times, surrealism at its core remains the same. It still seeks to reawaken the imagination, to inspire, to shake us out of our everyday world and ways of confined thinking," Ellis said.
"Surrealism helps us to shift perspectives, teaches us to revel in the unknown and to find wonder in the strange, it expands our realm of possibility beyond all limitations."
