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Oblivian Substanshall
Oblivian Substanshall is undeniably a dyed-in-the-wool surrealist. A hugely prolific artist in radio, music, cartoons, painting, performance/film, and more recently print on demand...view moreOblivian Substanshall is undeniably a dyed-in-the-wool surrealist. A hugely prolific artist in radio, music, cartoons, painting, performance/film, and more recently print on demand self-publication of books, and like his other work, is as singular as it is unpredictable.
His work is not the surrealism of advertising, but closer to the comic and disturbing imagery of Max Ernst, whilst also harking back to the English nonsense tradition of Lear & Carroll.
The diverse nature of his work is unified by his distinctive far reaching aesthetic, and playful scattershot collage of techniques, games, riddles, wordplay and off the wall humour.
Like an elastic art form being stretched and stretched, and so on; applying all manner of styles and content within it. (Improvised dream response pattern: stream of consciousness.)
With most interesting contemporary art, is difficult to pinpoint, simultaneously with the potential to be hugely popular, and also fiercely avant-garde.
A majority of my writing is not necessarily informed or inspired by other writers, but from avant-garde cinema, by the likes of Luis Buñuel, Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch; idioms that often deal with unhinged and absurd sensibilities, amongst other things.
This leads on to the Theatre of the Absurd, with luminaries such as, Alfred Jarry, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett; plus, the more experimental side of literature, by the likes of, J. G. Ballard, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Comte de Lautréamont and William Burroughs.
Elements, such as, outsider art, British surreal comedy, dreams and fantasy, the unpredictable, and randomness, are glue and foundation to my writing aesthetic.
I consider it, not short of ... LIFE!
Writing as if one’s train of thought had suddenly become short circuited, causing fractured and abstract flows of words and sentences, to chase, and possess their very own destiny, and absolute freedom from what we venture to call “the norm.”
If you are somebody who has an interest in absurdist writing that includes prose, poetry, daft verse, short plays and illustrations, then the writing of Oblivian Substanshall may well appeal to you.view less