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What Is Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism?

  • Writer: Kimberley A. Lombardi
    Kimberley A. Lombardi
  • Jun 18
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jun 21


Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism isn’t a style I chose. It’s a way of being that revealed itself—through the brush, through silence, through the spaces in between definition. It’s how the unseen becomes form, how the inherited becomes invented. It emerged not as a genre but as a response: to complexity, to sensation, to the impossibility of explaining truth in linear terms.


At its core, this is not just an approach to art. It’s a philosophy in motion.

It’s the murmur of ancestral memory. It’s the moment when intuition overrides intellect. It’s symbolism not as illustration, but as felt presence. And it resists the tendency to pin things down too tightly—because transformation lives in fluidity.



Art as a Living, Breathing Organism


When I create, I don’t begin with a concept. I begin with listening—sometimes to color, sometimes to a fragment of emotion, often to something far less tangible. The pieces evolve in conversation with themselves. They shift mid-process. They refuse completion until they say they’re ready.


This instinctual unfolding feels like the truest honoring of the moment. I don’t seek to depict dreams in the Freudian sense, nor to stylize fantasy. Instead, I work from a quiet center that understands meaning doesn’t always arrive with language. Sometimes it arrives in gesture, or in tone.


This is why the “multidimensional” aspect matters. My work occupies many planes at once—emotional, intuitive, symbolic, ancestral, aesthetic. No single dimension can hold the full truth.



A Genre That Refuses to Flatten


Traditional categories fail to account for the kind of creative process that is nonlinear, emergent, and deeply personal. “Surrealism” alone doesn’t capture it. Neither does “intuitive art.” Together—with “multidimensional” holding the tension—they begin to describe something that reflects both freedom and form, instinct and structure, sensation and intention.


This is why I felt compelled to name it: Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism.

Not to box it in, but to give it space. Naming it is a way to acknowledge that something real is happening here, even if it resists traditional language.



An Invitation, Not a Rule



I don’t claim to own this term. I offer it as an evolving framework. As a reminder that we’re allowed to invent our way of seeing. That lineage and intuition aren’t opposites. That sometimes, what we create becomes a bridge between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming.


If you see yourself reflected in this—if your own process hums with something unnamed—you’re welcome here. This is not a movement driven by theory, but by resonance.

Multidimensional Intuitive Surrealism is not a doctrine. It’s a pulse. A feeling. A permission.

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

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