“Like the surrealists, Villango might also believe that exorcising the imaginative faculties of the ‘unconscious mind’ to the attainment of a dream-like state can be ultimately ‘truer’ than, everyday reality. Also, like the Surrealists in the wake of the first orld War, Villalongo also believes that a more open and true perceptions of reality can provoke change — political, social a nd most importantly, personal” states Franklin Sirmans in a recent exhibition catalogue.

there were these little creatures that were odd and rugged and tender. nobody paid them much attention until they realized that they were real, in a time when less and less was.

what is real…i mean, what does it mean? you know the answer to that, i’m so not into semantics. but i didn’t mean semantics. what did you mean? i mean what is real? it’s such an odd thing to contemplate; i mean, in a way everything is real just because it is. okay, then i mean real with depth; with substance, with a kind of authenticity that people recognize because they feel it in their bones and hearts.