Just Below
"Just Below" is part of my Surface Dives series:
Surface Dives: a dive made from the surface of the water; a technique used in underwater searches.
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality in fact is.” – Carl Jung
I depict the human body navigating and struggling in water as a means to show an unrelenting search for clarity in an individual’s self-perception.
For the better part of the past year, I have been using water as a symbol in my paintings, predominantly as a symbol for the internal and external forces that can weigh on the mind and cloud our judgment.
Water is a fascinating element to me. It represents an environment in which we were created, but can no longer survive in. It is both our sustenance and our destruction, our vessel and a foreign world. It brings nourishment, comfort, stability, yet has the power to cause devastation beyond our control. Symbolically, it echoes of the womb, but also of an entity to be understood, traversed, and conquered. A force to be reckoned with, yet an important reminder of change, the evolution of things, transience… I gain perspective when I look out over the water. Do you?
Surface Dives: a dive made from the surface of the water; a technique used in underwater searches.
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality in fact is.” – Carl Jung
I depict the human body navigating and struggling in water as a means to show an unrelenting search for clarity in an individual’s self-perception.
For the better part of the past year, I have been using water as a symbol in my paintings, predominantly as a symbol for the internal and external forces that can weigh on the mind and cloud our judgment.
Water is a fascinating element to me. It represents an environment in which we were created, but can no longer survive in. It is both our sustenance and our destruction, our vessel and a foreign world. It brings nourishment, comfort, stability, yet has the power to cause devastation beyond our control. Symbolically, it echoes of the womb, but also of an entity to be understood, traversed, and conquered. A force to be reckoned with, yet an important reminder of change, the evolution of things, transience… I gain perspective when I look out over the water. Do you?
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