Surreal art blends the impossibilities of the human imagination with realism, usually conveying concepts that are contradicting. This piece of art created by Cyril Rolando contains elements of these. In the painting, we can see a girl of impossible size focused on something on the horizon being followed or chased by many ships. She also has a dress that seems to be part of the ocean.

It has become a very popular saying that the more time and effort you put into something the more you will get out of it. However, the things you get out of it may not be in the way you were anticipating, especially if its people you are chasing. An illustration of this is in Cyril Rolando painting (as seen above) which is a piece of surreal art and the ships chasing the girl with the water dress. As it is clearly seen the ships are sailing vigorously towards the girl despite the rough seas (which she seems to be causing). The Girl has no interest in the ships and she instead does not know that they are chasing her, she instead is going about her life. The girl seems so big to the ships and the ships are trying so hard to be/keep up with her, going through the waves she unintentionally throws at them, but no one is with her. The girl here symbolises the person that the ships are chasing after and the ships symbolise the people who are chasing after someone. This use of symbolism is illustrating the fact that the more u try to chase after someone the less successful you will be at getting their approval because u really can’t force anyone to like you or approve of you, instead sail your boat to your own part if your ocean and be wary that many will walk right by, but its the few that stop for you and cradle your ship that are worth the effort.