Original Drawing: Title: Navaho Reborn by SA Surrealist Artist Ras Steyn [MFA] - 300MM by 410MM

Original Drawing: Title: Navaho Reborn
by SA Surrealist Artist Ras Steyn [MFA]
Outer Frame Dimension: 300MM by 410MM
Lead Pencil Sketch on Thick High-GSM Archival Paper
Signed & Framed

Ras Steyn : Artistic Objectives: Authentic Surrealist Art

Over the last few years my obsession with Posthumanism, Monstrosity and Post-Surrealism has shifted towards diagnosing the artistic output of unquiet minds greatly. My understanding of Surrealism and its emphasis on identity multiplication has steadily developed into an ever-expanding concern for identity loss or theft, emptiness, psychological fracturing, inertia and neurosis/psychosis. It has become my obsession to capture that which is ephemeral and on the brink of surrendering to extreme disorder. I am a lateral Think Tank for the chaotic creativity that swirls and imprints itself amongst our destabilising environment. Common social imagery is almost always subjected to a surrealist void or abstract space. My aim is to analyse, interpret and react to the irrational system that shapes us, haunts us; and leaves us paralysed with its sublime overtones.  As a writer and artist I tend to live a more realistic life inside my head, while the empirical world around me seems somewhat vague and questionable. The physical (rational) world can be a very daunting place. Reality is not a very sound place for it is riddled with simulation, monsters parading in beautiful skin, perfect bodies concealing protean identities and other unsettling errors. My art aims to liberate the anomalous - and free errors from the confined spaces of a constrictive reality.

Art is my coping mechanism. But most importantly, my artistic output is a very personal invitation
to everyone who is addicted to the 'metamorphic' and symbolic power of the visual arts.