I can write on many topics, I read voraciously and have a deep command of English. I am a native US citizen with a degree from Washington University in Saint Louis in Philosophy. I've written dozens of academic papers and was a columnist for the school newspaper. Below is a writing sample.
Like many people, I came to surrealism through an interest in painting, both in the popular works of Dali and Kahlo, but also through the work of Arshile Gorky, an American-Armenian painter active through the late 1930s and early 1940s and who Andre Breton anointed as a surrealist some time after their meeting in 1944. I will probably always associate surrealism to some degree with the swooping, playful shapes of Gorky’s work. I had always thought I understood the basic precepts behind such pictures. Surrealism celebrated the unconscious, the world just beyond the directly perceived. It venerated dreams, and produced dazzling and innovative paintings in its attempt to depict them. Yet while painting perhaps provides a more crystalline presentation of surrealism, it also serves as a sort of trap: to come at surrealism through painting can lead one all too quickly to classify it as merely an art movement. Art movements, such as the cubists that preceded surrealism and the abstract expressionists that followed after, often contain elements of the political or the spiritual or the moral. But as Walter Benjamin’s Surrealism shows, surrealism was up to something more.