David Archer

“I work within the tradition and spirit of surrealism, proceeding playfully, not exactly as a game, but surely as ‘time out’ from the mundane and routine, and I am enlightened in my work by chance, accident and coincidence, the starting blocks for a trot through the subconscious.” 

Two surrealist writers with whom I am in accord say it better than I –

‘The true mission of the artist – painter or poet – has always been to find within himself the archetypes underlying poetic thought, to charge them with a new affectivity, so that an energetic current may circulate between himself and his fellow men, all the more intense in that these actualised archetypes will appear as the clearest and freshest expressions of the atmosphere that has conditioned the artist. ( Benjamin Peret )

‘I persist in thinking that a painting or a piece of sculpture can be conceived only secondarily from the viewpoint of taste and holds its own only insofar as it is liable to take our abstract knowledge, properly speaking, a step forward.’

(Andre Breton)