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We move like rivers through the universe, searching for meaning and new cosmology in the interstitial space we as humans find ourselves in in the contemporary moment. Adrift in a sea of information, communication, and commodity – yet where do our souls reside? In what do we place our stories and narratives? How do we see ourselves in relation to the world around us?
Archetypes are the structure of meaning in our universe, a continued legacy throughout the scope of human history. They are patterns that link us to the greater world and the collective unconscious of all things, including the planetary bodies themselves.
Muslin, thread, sand are the body of Vessel. Materials of our everyday lives, significant almost beyond meaning. They are the daily things that shape our ethos. The expansive beauty in a single grain of sand, the durable machined weave of muslin, the anonymity of a spool of thread – they are foundational to our work, our homes, our earth. Working with limited base materials allows the viewer to project a vast lexicon of form, moment, and dream upon them.
This is a slow work. It asks viewers to sit through an uncomfortable revelation, witness to their own fleeting interpersonal dramas and moments of growth and decay - Vessel creates a space for the viewer to meet their id, the depths of their own consciousness and imagination- a space to witness the archetypal patterns and learn new yet ancient ways of knowing.
Vessel addresses the desacralization of the natural world and the severing of the human self from the greater cosmology of gnosis as discussed in Jungian philosophy - when we are both creator and created living in a famine of the soul.
“The ground principles, the archai, of the unconscious are indescribable because of their wealth of reference, although in themselves recognizable. The discriminating intellect naturally keeps on trying to establish their singleness of meaning and thus missed the essential point; for what can above all establish as the one thing consistent with their nature is the manifold meaning, their almost limitless wealth of reference, which makes any unilateral formulation impossible.”
– Carl Jung