Trans-Surrealism
For an Expression that Lives Between Inner Images and Nature
No longer do we live in an era where the unconscious is revered as “depth” or “mystery.”
The unconscious dwells in the gestures of the body, mingles with the texture of the wind,
and quietly shapes our days as a “stratum of sensation” that everyone knows without words.
I gently place artificial objects within nature,
and with the seasons, humidity, air, light, and sound that drift there,
I record the fleeting moments that touch the depths.
This act is a sign that art is not installation but generation,
not construction but resonance—an art that is reborn.
I call this an Alive Installation.
It is the will of a living event born between environment and inner image,
the contact point where the unconscious suddenly reveals itself,
the redefinition that what Surrealism once sought in “dream” or “unconscious”
is no longer hidden in the depths,
but seeps into the world itself as phenomenon.
Expression is not symbols or fantasies,
but the act of scooping up sensations that cannot be touched,
yet are undeniably “there.”
I name this practice Trans-Surrealism.
It is a poetics of transformation, crossing boundaries of unconscious and conscious,
nature and artificiality, memory and present, body and landscape, knowledge and sensation.
The work is not a finished visual representation.
It is an open map and device of sensitivity, regenerated within the viewer.
It is also the memory of the subtle yet certain “climate of the heart” of humans living with nature.
The day is soon to come when it will be inscribed as a concept of social expressivity.
Dreams are no longer “in some other dimension.”
They are here, at our feet, born in the undulations of the air.
I listen to them, open my eyes, and dwell there.
Trans-Surrealism is a high-resolution poetic form,
for living at the center of awakening,
in the past of the future.
Yuki KATANO
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