Status Updates From Remedios Varo: Science Fict...

They are exploring exactly what I’ve been trying to pin point in my art, the fourth dimension with sound and color and idea that is in higher consciousness, this book has found me and I haven’t found it. Placing sacred significance on things and being able to choose that through altarpieces and sacred materials. Even the mundane, I choose what I explore, I choose what is sacred. OH AND MANIPULATION OF TIME!

“She had such a need for the world to be different… For Varo, who envisioned the future with hope, such transcendence would rely on a combination of alchemy, ecology, mysticism, and science. In her painting she imagined a harmony between genders and a rediscovery of a female-centered spirituality that would lead to a higher consciousness, one that all could access.”

“By forming a complex symbolism of rebirth based on alchemy, esoterism, and the female body, she imagined possibilities for living in an alternate, woman-driven, and more spiritually centered world.”

“The artist must be clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician: must possess the power to make others see that which they do not themselves see.”

“If a wheel turns with sufficient velocity its spokes cannot be seen. Thus, the invisible beings that surround us could be seen by looking through a machine that slows down motion. They’re invisible because the substance they’re made of moves faster than our capacity to see.”

“artists felt once again the ancient nostalgia of magical powers.”

“I deliberately set out to make a mystical work, in the sense of revealing a mystery, or better, of expressing it through ways that do not always correspond to logical order, but to an intuitive, divinatory and irrational order.”