Imagination And The Artist

Michelangelo, Versailles, photo by Adriana Geo on Unsplash

For thousands of years the mind of man has worried about the sick soul, perhaps even earlier than it did about the sick body.

The propitiation of gods, the perils of the soul and its salvation, these are not yesterday’s problems.

Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the truest sense of the word, and on the grandest scale.

They express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelatio of the soul’s nature.

From this universal foundation no human soul is cut off; only the individual consciousness that has lost its connection with the psychic totality remains caught in the illusion that the soul is a small circumscribed area, a fit subject for “scientific” theorizing.

The loss of this great relationship is the prime evil of neurosis. ~Carl Jung

I’m fascinated by the old world, with its old ways and old beliefs. I want to live in an old building on an old street and wonder about the ancient history of the place. I think that the human mind needs roots in history, in ancient stories and arts. Yes, I’m a modern artist, but my practice and education is nurtured in the mists of time.