synæsthesia & alchemical spirit

Harry Smith " Mirror Animations "

"Smith approached life in an artistic manner, so that distinctions between art and life became meaningless. As with the surrealists, he rearranged everyday elements in new ways in order to show us how the fantastic was embedded in the mundane (and how “mundanity” was a consequence of how we perceived the world, rather than a reflection the external world)."

exerpt from
Alchemical Transformations: The Abstract Films of Harry Smith
by Jamie Sexton