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A New Language of Vision and Knowing

  • metamorphicfolkart
  • Jul 8
  • 3 min read

🌌 Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism: A New Language of Vision and Knowing


Kaleidoscope Eye
Kaleidoscope Eye


Opening Invocation

There are languages that do not begin with words. They begin with sensation—an image glimpsed in dreamspace, a symbol that shimmers just beyond the veil of waking logic. Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism (MIS) is one such language. It is not a style. It is a way of seeing, a way of knowing, a way of remembering what the rational mind has forgotten.

MIS emerges from the liminal: the space between dimensions, between disciplines, between the visible and the invisible. It is surrealism not as escape, but as return—to the mythic, the archetypal, the nonlinear truths that pulse beneath the surface of consensus reality. It is intuitive not as a rejection of intellect, but as its expansion. And it is multidimensional because it refuses to flatten experience into a single plane of meaning.



What Is Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism?


Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism is a genre of art and thought that integrates intuitive perception, symbolic language, nonlinear states of consciousness, and surrealist aesthetics to explore the layered nature of reality. It is a genre that honors the unseen, the ineffable, the nonlinear. It invites both artist and witness into a co-creative act of meaning-making—one that transcends traditional boundaries of time, space, and identity.


MIS is not bound to a single medium. It can be visual, sonic, textual, somatic, or interactive. What unites its expressions is not form, but frequency: a resonance that bypasses surface interpretation and speaks directly to the deeper strata of consciousness.



Core Principles


🌀 Multidimensionality   MIS operates across multiple planes—emotional, ancestral, symbolic, temporal. It acknowledges that reality is not singular or static, but layered and alive.


🌙 Intuition as Method and Medium   Intuition is not a supplement to reason—it is a sovereign mode of knowing. MIS centers intuitive process as both the source and the structure of creation.


🧠 The Role of the Subconscious and Nonlinear Mind   MIS honors the subconscious not as a shadow realm to be decoded, but as a co-creator. It invites altered states, dream logic, and nonlinear cognition to participate in the act of making. This openness allows the work to be shaped by what lies beneath and beyond the conscious self—by symbols that arise unbidden, by patterns that emerge without planning, by truths that surface only when control is relinquished.


🪞 Surrealism as Liberation   Surrealism here is not a stylistic homage, but a radical act of liberation from consensus reality. It is a portal to the mythic, the dreamlike, the archetypal


🧬 Symbolic and Archetypal Integration   MIS draws from the deep well of collective imagery—symbols, dreams, ancestral memory—not to replicate, but to recontextualize and reawaken.


🕊 Ethical Imagination and Aesthetic Sovereignty   MIS resists commodification. It is not designed to please algorithms or markets. It is an act of aesthetic sovereignty—rooted in integrity, discernment, and the ethical use of imagination.



Origins and Lineage


MIS is in conversation with many lineages:

  • The dream-saturated canvases of classical surrealism

  • The visionary art of indigenous cosmologies

  • The speculative poetics of Afrofuturism and mythopoeia

  • The intuitive abstraction of mystic modernists

  • The nonlinear storytelling of diasporic memory

But MIS is not a derivative. It is a divergence. It is a genre born of this moment—where the collapse of old paradigms demands new languages of coherence, new architectures of meaning.



Expressions Across Mediums


🎨 Visual Art: Layered compositions, symbolic landscapes, dreamlike figures, multidimensional geometries


📝 Writing: Nonlinear narratives, poetic fragments, mythic memoir, speculative philosophy


🎧 Sound: Ambient textures, ancestral rhythms, intuitive vocalizations, sonic portals


🕯 Movement: Ritual gesture, intuitive choreography, embodied storytelling


🌀 Interactive: Participatory mythologies, symbolic exchanges, intuitive rituals, co-created experiences




Why Now?


Because we are living in a time of rupture and remembering. Because the old maps no longer suffice. Because intuition is rising as a necessary counterbalance to algorithmic logic. Because we need art that doesn’t just reflect the world, but reimagines it. Because the surreal is no longer a fringe—it is the texture of our daily lives. Because we are multidimensional beings, and we are ready to create from that knowing. Because the subconscious is not a place to fear, but a wellspring to honor.



Closing Invitation


Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism is not a closed system. It is a living field. A genre still unfolding. A space for artists, thinkers, mystics, and makers who feel the call to create from the liminal, the layered, the luminous.


If you recognize yourself in these words, you are already part of it.

Welcome to the genre. Welcome to the remembering.

 
 
 

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MIS is an emergent genre initiated by Kimberley A. Lombardi—honoring instinct, resonance, and transformation.

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