Surrealism As A Wound To Be Beheld By God

An illustrated zine, it explores decreation as a generative act — a peeling away of surfaces, a site of emergence. At its core is the slit: a threshold, an opening, a wound. The slit is neither absence nor void, but a dynamic site where offerings are made — gestures of appeasement, desire, and control (inserting offerings through the slits of sacred enclosures or slipping bills into the garments of dancers). The work reframes these acts as metaphysical transactions with the unknowable — attempts to touch and be held by something beyond form and vision. A slit is also the parting of eyelids, and the dilation of the camera's aperture, a sudden flash of vision. In this double function: offering (holding) and seeing (beholding), fissure moves beyond sacrifice, and towards a site of becoming. A space where vision and wound coalesce, where power and passivity collapse into one another. Where images are peeled back, skin-like, and reality begins to flicker.