Below Is A Tribute to Remedios Varo
“My Week In San Miguel” was completed this morning and several hours later while walking the streets I discovered a book by a well-know surrealist painter and immediatey brought it home. Here is a little info about her which as you can see, I deeply relate to.
“Remedios Varo believed in magic. She had an animistic faith in the power of objects and in the interrelatedness of plant, animal, human, and mechanical worlds. The story is told that one evening on a Mexican street she found a plant being sold that produced fruits that looked like eggs. Fascinated, she brought one to her apartment, set it in the center of her plant-filled terrace in the moonlight and placed her tubes of paint around it. She felt that this special plant, her paints, and the moon were harmonious together and that their conjunction would prove auspicious for the next day of painting…Varo held a mystical belief in forces beyond the self, in powers beyond that of the individual that can influence and direct events.” Woman’s Art Journal 1980
