Paintings Library IV .... 2005
All paintings for sale. Prices on application.
This library will carry the new series of pictures evolving from an internal process undertaken recently, based loosely on Carl Jung's own research into dreaming and the place of the dream as provider of dispassionate comment on the wholeness or otherwise of the dreamer.
The initial offerings are principally about the door into the unconscious: establishing there can be a door, finding it, then attempting to move through it to become sufficiently familiar with the process to be able to systematically retrieve elements discovered through this process and bring them to the light of day: that is to say realise them.
Each picture represents a different psychic configuration and reflects the individual variations inevitable as each approaches the same challenge. Much like the human face, all having two eyes, a nose and a mouth yet nevertheless able to suggest an apparently infinite variety. The shell in each one indicates the densest of our interpenetrating bodies, its housing.
As the pictures progress ( not necessarily in the sense of improving; after all you're still progressing even if you're going downhill) they concentrate more on the abstract, linear squiggle which to me has come to represent the pscho-chemical vehicle for the dream. These meanderings then develop a kind of maze-like web.
"In building a maze there are three rules. First, the tip, but only the tip,
of the objective at the heart of the maze must always be visible. Second,
at all times, if the person in the maze heads resolutely towards the objective,
the passage must lead him away. Third, at all times, if the person in the
maze turns his back on the objective and walks away from it, the passage must
lead him towards it."
Rodney Hall, A fragment from Daedalus. ( from Humphrey McQueen's
The Black Swan of Trespass)
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