“My passion is visual storytelling - to create one big picture out of all the unique elements that make up a person or a brand.”
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According to Swiss psychologist and my personal hero Dr Carl Gustav Jung, we all have a shadow aspect to us which is the unconscious, unknown dark side of the personality that the conscious ego does not identify with. We all carry parts within us we have disowned. I know from my own experience with years of depression and the recovery from disordered eating what if feels like to be stuck in dark hole and what happens if we don’t deal with what’s going on underneath the surface of our external behaviours and patterns.
Countess Nina encountered her own dark demons with whom she battles her entire life and the person who I believe could have truly helped her overcome some of her struggles was none other than Dr Carl Jung himself who, coincidentally, happened to have been Nina’s very close neighbour in Kuesnacht for many years. He lived less than a kilometer away from her on the same street, both sharing the same view of the picturesque Alpes. In his work, Dr Jung focused on the symbolism of his patients’ dreams and creative expressions. I can only imagine he would have loved seeing Nina’s very symbolic drawings and scribbles that make up the background and patterns of this collage including a few Mandala shaped structures just like the one right in the centre of the artwork. He noticed that his patients seemed to have reoccurring dreams about Mandalas prior to a period of transformation. By observing their dreams and art he could then help them with the struggles and conflicts in their waking life by deciphering the symbolism of this language of our subconscious. As per Jungian psychology, the geometric patterns of a Mandala are symbols used for reunifying the Self. Just like the Mandala, this collage is also based on Sacred Geometry… if you look at the artwork as a whole, it shows the Fibonacci Spiral or ‘Golden Ratio’ as the structure symbolizing the timeline of Nina’s story and the ever-unfurling nature of life. The Sacred Geometry arises out of the set of numbers from the Fibonacci series; these numbers, ratios and shapes have been used to explain creation, growth and harmony – all found in the number of petals of a flower, in architecture, shells and spiralling galaxies. And for lovers of music, it’s makes up a beautiful harmony on the musical scale. By using the Fibonacci sequence, I was able to ‘infuse’ Nina’s collage with her passion for music…
Life is like a spiral, constantly unfurling, we are not meant to stay in the same space, both emotionally and psychologically, we are meant to evolve, expand and grow. All we need is the courage, willingness and openness to heal and allow life to unfurl towards our highest potential. My hope is that by sharing some of her story I can shine a light on some of the darkness and keep her memory alive for her family.
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