This work titled "An Insipid Notion #177" embodies unreal love photography as psychic withdrawal—the "astonished world" becoming private hallucination where love experienced too late, too intensely, removes itself from reality. Rey visualizes the lover who retreats into utopian projection, surrendering to imagined narratives while reality dissolves. The work is not sentimental but clinical in clarity, exposing desire's fragile architecture.
 
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of love open to the world, public, without shame. "The lover is then separated from the world, he un realizes it because he fantasizes, on the other hand, the adventures or utopias of his love; he surrenders to the Image, in relation to which everything disturbs him" (Lacan)
 
Acquire this unreal love photography exploring fantasy, projection and emotional retreat into private hallucination. From The World Thunderstruck by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.