Andre Breton

'..In cultures which recognize the independent life of images, collectors risk "possession" by the very objects they own. Breton cultivated this risk. He hung paintings near his bed so as to glimpse them, upon waking, by the light of the unconscious. He wrote that he acquired works of art "hoping to appropriate as my own certain powers which electively, to my eyes, they harbored." Breton used images magically, as a means of access to radically other worlds...' Leslie Camhi.

For more on Andre Breton, read Star Communion Report 1.