Welcome to Ark Surreal!
A new voice for the eye.
Surreal collages made by Allan Randolph Kausch.
All of the collages you see here have been lovingly handmade by an actual human!
Accolades
“Fuckin brilliant. I can’t tell you how thoroughly admiring I am. I thought it would be good but not this good. Bravo! Actually couldn’t put it down. Tremendous idea beautifully executed. Praise insufficient in my view, or at least inadequate. The book actually works as books should — draw you in and keep you there.” — Michael Moorcock, Whispering Swarm, Editor of New Worlds
“Like Max Ernst?” — J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
“Kausch is keeping the true Surrealist heart alive, by cutting it into pieces, as is required.” — Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, Lucky Alan and Other Stories and The Arrest
“I really love your collages...your work is sublime!” — Rikki Ducornet, The Word Desire
“I recognized a few of the beauties. Well done.” — Gee Vaucher, Crass collagist
“I’m loving the collages! Especially the donut-shaped amoeba over the decimated city. Nice work!” — Penelope Houston, singer, The Avengers
“Savoring your collages” — Mark Polizzotti, Publisher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, translator of Roussel, author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton
“Your illustrations are excellent. I look forward to reading the book.” — Ian MacKaye, Co-founder/Owner Dischord Records, member of Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens, Coriky
“My first question to you is whether this is a work of fiction.” — John O’Brien, Publisher, Dalkey Archive
“Loved it. A proper mash-up of ideas. Looks brilliant visually as well.” — John King, England Away, Human Punk, Publisher, London Books
“Really cool! Never give up!” — Winston Smith, Act Like Nothing’s Wrong, collagist for The Dead Kennedys
“C’est un homme de goût” — Hervé Le Tellier, Oulipian, All Happy Families
Allan Kausch has taken up the cudgels for Surrealist collage art…his eagle-eyed selection and juxtaposition of images…creates a double reverberation. Viewers make the depicted figures’ bewilderment a component of their own amusement and muted amazement. Kausch puts the Surrealist collage through a refining fire of alchemy to produce an art of gold. — Jim Feast, Karl Marx Private Eye
“The collage, is delightful. This is how we all recognize one another in the Metro, needing no secret handshake or shirt.” — Jim Sallis, Drive
“In the book’s cover image… manages to be familiar and domestic, alarming and grotesque — an unsettling beauty perfectly suited to the stories within.” — Clarissa Hurley, Founding Co-editor of CAMEL an Illustrated Journal of Narrative
“You have a strange and wonderful mind” — Michael Moorcock, The English Assassin
