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Surreal

 

In Surreal, John Romi engineers a severe critique of non-linear spatial logic, completely subverting the psychoanalytic and dream-based narratives traditionally attached to the title.

The visual field operates as a deep, receding matrix of intersecting gray, blue, and purple vectors, establishing a highly volatile topological grid with immense gravitational pull. Romi deploys severe geometric armatures that aggressively pierce and fragment this spatial plane. At the absolute locus of this receding tunnel hangs a massive, inverted cuneiform extrusion. Rendered in hyper-saturated, high-luminosity orange and pink frequencies, this primary architectural entity acts as a load-bearing data conduit.

It mechanically anchors an otherwise impossible geometric environment, permanently codifying extreme spatial tension under anomalous structural forces.

  

Surreal

2024

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

 

 

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