Gooseneck was derived from an exercise in automatic drawing. Automatic drawing or automatism was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making and thus the drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. The drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed.