Art as Transformation
Explore creativity and you will touch upon the core of humanity. Human beings are creative beings. We all continuously co-create and co-shape life on earth ... and our outer actions, expressions and creations are profound mirrors of the world we experience within.
As human beings we are born into a precarious position. As young children we are fully rounded, lively little beings ... but as we grow older and taller, so our shadows grow. We are told by the world around us, by our parents, teachers and friends, which aspects of ourselves are acceptable and desirable and what aspects we have to banish from the surface of our being ... and so ... as the years go by we bury one rejected part after another ... somewhere deep within.
By the time we have become adults, many aspects of our personality have been re-housed in the dark dungeons of our psyche. However, this does not mean that they are inoperative or without power. On the contrary, these shadow aspects influence much of our everyday behaviour and interaction with the world. And remember ... as within, so without. That which we experience as the outer world is really a mirror of that which we carry within. We often just don’t realise it is so. As Carl G. Jung once said, “that which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”
