El umbral secreto: El encuentro internacional de la cultura surrealista. De mente, erótica, onírica, poética

Valparaíso, Chile: El Umbral Secreto, 2010. First Edition. Near fine. The limited edition catalog of the 2010 international Surrealist conclave held in Chile, housed in a wooden box with a hinged lid.

This box includes the four catalogs, one of artwork, one of poetry, one of prose works, and one titled "Más de teoría" (Beyond theory). The latter is perfectbound; the other three consist of narrow sheets of paper printed in color on both sides, with a hole drilled in one corner for binding with a bolt and a wing nut.

The lid is screenprinted on both sides in black. The top has the title and an illustration; the lower lid is screenprinted with a short piece by Octavio Paz on Surrealism (beginning, "El surrealismo ha sido la manzana en el árbol de la sintaxis" [Surrealism has been the apple on the syntax tree] reprinted from his "Arbol adentro").

Other items laid in to the box are:
1) A metal totem on a paper and foam-core stand by the Chilean artist Mario Murua;
2) A box of matches designed by Ximena Olguin, with an image by Ody Saban, and a printed poem by Enrique de Santiago. The instructions are to read the poem and then burn it with the accompanying match;
3) An illegibly signed offset print;
4) An envelope with various art and poetry pieces;
5) A folding sleeve containing many reproductions of handwritten poems by various authors;
6) 12 small polished stones;
7) Two sea shells;
8) Two dyed feathers, one purple and the other red;
9) A small paper object like a lunch box, labeled Matta;
10) A small bottle mounted to foam core labeled, "Frasco para las lágrimas" (Bottle for tears);
11) An object in the shape of a small clay pipe with a cartoonish fish mounted on the stem inserted on a piece of foamcore labeled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

Limited to 100 copies housed in a wooden box painted red and printed in black on the cover. Box near fine, numbered 19 on the bottom. Contents also near fine (missing one screw and wing nut for one of the catalogs); otherwise seemingly complete, but there is no contents sheet to collate with. Not recorded in OCLC. "Más de teoría" catalog signed by Enrique de Santiago.