The physical object, to me, is merely a stepping stone to an inner
world where the object, with the help of the subconscious drives and
focuses perceptions, becomes transmuted into a symbol whose life is beyond
the life of the objects we know …
world where the object, with the help of the subconscious drives and
focuses perceptions, becomes transmuted into a symbol whose life is beyond
the life of the objects we know …

![billyjane:
Clarence John Laughlin , The House of the Past, 1947 [also]
from The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious (Aperture, 2011) by W.M. Hunt
from La Lettre](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsx724Y5z11qztk1wo1_1280.jpg)

