About the Artist

For most of my life I have suffered at the hands of my own mind in many forms. I have always resisted diagnosis and medical treatment as I felt it would not help my Self, and I needed the symptoms to find the disease. To pin down and label my mental and physical states would be to remove their living messages and violate the inner experiences and lessons; the archetypal wounds. The times which I attempted to label. I realize it appears as one of many possibilities, dependent on the time of diagnosis; almost as if it is one disease with the mask of many. A living being that changes shape as it breathes. For this reason I consider it instead something to be listened to and used as a guide to my own purpose; to silence or remove would be personal psychic death. This choice is the ‘hard way’, and my life is more difficult for it – however, it has a chance of being meaningful to me.

I have been deeply inspired by the beliefs of Carl Jung, who’s work has given me the necessary language to understand my own psyche enough to find my healing path. When I first encountered his work I stood in disbelief that someone else before me has theorized the inner mind in such a way that validated my own perspectives; for the first time I was not crazy or alone. His work in dream analysis and emphasis on the healing power of symbols and analogy guided me to the mouth of my individuation path; a lifelong journey which I gladly take up for the remainder of my life. This is the only way.