#surreal

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Everyday domestic and public artifacts are reconfigured through illogical, dreamlike material mashups. Sanitary ceramics, speech lecterns, binoculars, and sweets are fused with cast-iron plumbing caps, surgical instruments, and road-roller drums to disrupt their original intended purposes.

White leather roller skate with pink laces resting on heavy cylindrical steel road-roller drums against a pastel wall.

Can you dance across crushed dreams?

Ribbed conch shell merging into a polished chrome car horn flare on a dark mahogany table under directional light.

Can silence blow a sudden alarm?

Worn leather binoculars on concrete, their front glass lenses replaced by welded, rusted cast-iron pipe caps.

Can blind glass peer into eternity?

White ceramic toilet bowl whose lifted seat extends into a polished mahogany lectern shelf with a brass microphone.

Is every private truth spoken aloud?

Mustard-yellow knit wool glove whose wrist cuff transitions into a rusted iron handcuff on a wooden table.

Which cuff binds tighter, wool or steel?

Black fountain pen fitted with a bent, rusty nail instead of a nib, tearing parchment on a dark wood desk.

Can a jagged thought still bleed poetry?

White acrylic bathtub transitioning into a dented steel wheelbarrow bucket on dusty warehouse floorboards.

Can you soak away a day this heavy?

Oval bath sponge woven from sharp steel wool shavings on the porcelain rim of a bathtub beside wet soap.

Does every lather leave a scar?

A rectangular vintage suitcase built from red clay bricks and grey mortar on an old railway station platform.

Is your heaviest baggage built to stay?

Three-tiered grey concrete wedding cake with plaster drips and rusted bolts on a dusty linen table.

How heavy is a slice of forever?

Plastic toothbrush with sharp upholstery tacks replacing bristles, bearing dried white paste on a marble counter.

Must a clean smile cut this deep?

A heavy cast-iron lifebuoy with pitted rust and hemp rope propped against a wooden pier bollard.

Will your salvation pull you under?