It was Max Ernst who once said, “Art is the revelation of nature’s darkest secrets, those that remain hidden beneath the everyday appearance.” I went into the position as juror of the prestigious and utterly wild international exhibition Surreal Salon, held each year at Baton Rouge Gallery as celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement, with this Ernst quote in mind. After, and within, such tumultuous times, there is something about the staid everyday appearance that begins to bend: it reveals malleability of the normal. So perhaps the most surreal scene I was to see was actually going to be a comment on the most familiar.
