An object: a texture, a colour, or simply an emotion, combined with a narrative can create a cryptic puzzle of image and reality.
Papier-pulpe as flesh with distorted proportions. A panelled door without a handle, making unavailable whatever lurks behind it.
A wallpaper pattern suggesting an erotic desire, a dog without a face, or the demonic presence in a torn piece of plastic.
The arranging of a complex geometry, believing it serves some logical purpose. (Bob Lawrie)

The Contradiction of Symbols.

"Desires excel at reuniting contraries and representing them in a single object. Often they also represent an element by its
opposite, such that one cannot know if an element susceptible to contradiction betrays a positive or negative content
in the logic of its thinking." (Hans Bellmer, German surrealist, 1902-1975)

Symbols represent things beyond themselves: the implication being that within our own psyches we construct
inherited archetypes which play out on different levels ranging from the personal to the universal.

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