Having few drops of Catalan blood, I share a heart connection with Salvador Dali. Born in Figueres, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain, on October 12, 1901, Dali’s paintings revolutionized the world of art with melted times and hallucinogenic toreadors. The master of surrealism is also born under the astrological sign of Libra. Dali’s fascination with quantum physics and his exploration of the surreal inspired me over the years. Then, I discovered la mera, Frida Kahlo.
Reality is more than what is perceived by the senses. A life of inner explorations combined with the urge to express the way I see the world as a Queer Mestiza from the Caribbean and a former refugee with a diverse makeup of cultures and languages led me to create a new literary style, Lucid Surrealism (LS).
LS seamlessly weaves multiple realms of reality. This multi-layered style of writing gently guides the reader from exuberant physical encounters to the deep oceanic trench of the unconscious where a plurality of realms fuse in perpetual oneness. Fascination for detail mixes with ambiguity, creating a collage of surreal fictionalized scenes rooted in actual stories. In LS, elements of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, fable, poetic prose, epistolary writing and storytelling are carefully stitched to form a cohesive, hybrid, and unique Mestiza voice.
In addition, LS explores the sensorial realms of perception, the sensual, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms, the world of energy, particles, connectivity, and entanglements, and ultimately the plurality of the collective consciousness that makes up the immigrant experience. The resulting work fuses reality, imagination, memories, conscious and subconscious experiences and perceptions, and the parallel realities of dreams, out-of-body, remote viewing, previous incarnations, Shamanic journeys, and near death experiences. It obliterates the perceived illusion of linear time. Samples of this writing are available on this website.
The Butterfly’s Ring is the first novel in a series written in this hybrid literary style where paintings become actors and butterflies move the plot.
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