The title of this collection refers to, and reinterprets, psychatrist C.G. Jung’s work MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS in which the central theme is the union or overcoming of opposite forces of the psyché. By analyzing the symbols of ancient alchemy Jung draws conclusions about psychological mecanisms for his psychology of the unconscious. According to Jung these symbols can surface in dreams, fantasies or delusions. But they are also at the source of religious concepts or of any artwork. Whereas psychatrists like Freud and Adler at the same epoch founded their scientific research mainly on the libido drive of the unconscious, Jung distinguishs the function of archaic symbols in the human unconscious, therefore giving a much richer explanation to all human expressions and impressions.
Mecanisms like “separating and dissolving” were found in alchemist writings, as well as “composition and solidification”. All these take place in a constantly evolving mind and universe like presented by Jung.
The fine structured lines of color pencils enables the viewer to shift to a microscopic view of what is happening on the outer surface of the overall macroscopic shapes and figures of the drawings, pointing therefore to these borderline activities. The ambiguity of the terms union and fusion is that they only -and undoubtly– take place by disruptions and by differences, therefore the title of this series. The misty nebula of a promised unification into “the All-One” (Jung’s individual Self as well as the social function of the symbols) is replaced by a more “earthy” certainty of the rupture, the conflictual, friction, loss, sadness, minor solitary detachement, as well as major oppression.
