A leidmotiv in my work from 2017 to 2020.
In 2019 I started my training as a Jungian analyst and started my own analysis. That defintely affected my work, but I cannot fully grasp it myself yet. Just as I cannot fully understand the reason for my symbolic use of the unicorn. A symbol remains a symbol until it loses its magic medicine as a healing function between the conscious and the unconscious. Mostly it is because we fully understand it, it is fully in the light, accepted and maybe even integrated. We then no longer need to hold onto the symbol, can let it go. Art can work wonderfully well to get to know your symbols, to get to know what lives inside you that steers your behavior ( both welcome and annoying behaviors).
As an analyst I mainly listen to and mirror the analysant. In the mirror they see themselves and the images that have accompanied them throughout their lives.
Working on these images in clay or paper or whatever material suits them, can help to see them from a distance and a 360° viewpoint.
If anything, it is immensely relieving and energizing to ‘get it out of your system’.
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