It is the birthday of genius visionary Dada & surrealist photographer & painter Man Ray. You wouldn’t think ravingly Virgo to gaze at his work – he was Venus-Uranus in Libra (free love indicator for sure) but the dude had Sun-Saturn in Virgo & was constantly invented. A camera was never, apparently, to his liking so he’d tweak the thing until it suited his exacting Virgoan tastes & thus did he come up with all the innovations he’s renowned for. It’s interesting he did this pic called Pisces – Why Pisces?
Andre Breton, in The Surrealist Manifesto, wrote… “POISSON SOLUBLE, am I not the soluble fish, I was born under the sign of Pisces, and man is soluble in his thought! The flora and fauna of Surrealism are inadmissible.”
The Pisces pic above was one of several illustrating a surrealist poetry anthology by Paul Eluard:
“…All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The
language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error…”
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