“Surrealism is destructive,
but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
― Salvador Dali
UNLEASHED SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL
india ink, white highlights on toned paper 21x30 cm - 2014
What made me think about this piece again that has actually not been published other than in my work inventory on Flickr, was a conversation with some Hive friends on my previous post. For one, 
The other conversation I had was with 
I agree about time and art
@thermoplastic and often I find myself starting something, even just adding color to an older illustration, and I get lost in the 'story' of it all and make various iterations as the world unfolds before me and before you know it the sun has moved across your desk and it's been half a day. We get a special relationship with Time, we artists, we are lucky in that I think.
To which I replied:
Thank you Donna - that is exactly it. On top of it all, I got quite a few unfinished pieces around that I pick up from time to time. I remember seeing some older (and then newer) Dali books and noticed that he changed and/or added to his paintings over time. I cannot find this quote anymore, but I had repeated it before: "A painting is never done until sold". Maybe it goes back to Da Vinci (with a little twist). Like, once you sold it, you can't monkey around with it anymore. But in my past, I had sold a large drawing, and then I missed it and also had more ideas about it, that I did it as a painting.
Mentioning Dali brought me to the quote by him with which I started this blog. I was inspired by Dali in my early days. That quote fit perfectly with my drawing.
That a curator for the largest private collection of Fantastic Art in Austria had picked this piece out to be included in a 3-Person exhibition was a surprise, since I had not even presented it to her on the initial visit to my studio. To this day it is not on any of my sites (other than Flickr). Maybe I should correct this - I actually don't do many drawings with ink, since the bulk of my drawings are either graphite or charcoal.
Back in 2019, in the days before Hive, I posted about this exhibition - apparently it did not get much attention back then on Steemit.
MY ARTWORK IN THE CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION - INFELD CULTURE CENTER 2019
On Flickr, I got the album about this event, here are 2 views of the placement among my drawings:
The day after the opening (I stayed for the weekend, since it was customary for the participating artists to be served lunch the following day), my friend 
prior to putting the show together,
she then promised to see my exhibition, and she kept her word.
So this became a trip down memory lane - from remembering one small drawing, and all the circumstances around it. Prior to the exhibition, this piece had resided in the deepest recesses of my studio and not seen the light of day for 5 years since I created it.
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