We bury things, we leave things behind. Yet they remain below the surface, exerting their presence. If we sit in the shadow side, we discover its strength and beauty.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
— Carl Jung, The Philosophical Tree
I love to explore the effect of light on materials and spaces, and I’m interested in how shifts in perspective can pry open our unconscious mind.
In this earlier manifestation of “Seeing Beauty,” from 2022, I chose to explore my own basement, cluttered with abandoned objects and the utility systems of an 80-year-old home. This setting enabled me to bring these ideas together in a meditation on the shadow side.
We may start to realize that the twisted infrastructure is essential to the whole. We can recognize the things left behind as valuable. And we begin to integrate the shadow side into our consciousness.
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