On Friday night, Shawn stopped by the bar to hang out with her friend Bonnie. I chatted with the two of them for a while, and we got to talking about Shawn's thesis, which led to my thesis, which led to talking about magical realism. You see, Bonnie is a magical realist painter. Bonnie has a website.
We talked about magical realism for a bit, in terms of magical realism being the place where the realistic and the surrealistic meet and blur together. She talked about exploring the things that are suggested on the edge of realism. I asked about her process and she said that she starts by taking photos, then paints from them, modifying things a bit as she goes.
You start from a place of reality, then add suggestion of unreality. It's as good a definition as I've heard.
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