Series 18:
The Joy of Self
2004-2006
Vertical: Free fl ow and connection of energies
from the central nervous system. Intentions, desires, feelings,
affections, expressions and intellect expressed freely via the
same organic vertical axis, confl ict-free and in harmony with
their orthogonal horizontal (vision - mind). The woman artist.
Having wound up the exhibition in Chelsea,
where I had stated and consolidated the theme of the proper
appraisal of femininity, I started on this latest series with the
painting Perception. This was followed by two on the theme
of the vertebral column and the chakras, Panic … the moment
coinciding with an accident that led to a fi re that gutted the
fi rst few fl oors of the house where I was living. By some miracle
I got out of my fl at alive and unhurt and with my paintings safe
and sound.
I decided to spend more time in the country, in
the Catskills, to get into more direct contact with nature.
A very difficult moment in the execution of a painting called
Combustion and a hugely liberating one with Joy.
This series is of absolutely vital importance for
my encounter with the basic truth of the Original Division,
in which personality had to renounce itself, falling back on
opposites, and creating the archetype of the super-powerful
Great Mother, by interiorizing and cultivating internally what I
am: a creative artist.
With the help, as ever, of my readings in a number
of disciplines, including Luce Irigaray, Carl G. Jung, Joseph
Campbell, Jacques Derrida, Sigrid Weigel, Caroline Myss, G.S.
Arundale and many others, I concentrated on the theme of the
psychological archetypes, the philosophy of deconstruction, and
the therapies of the chakras and the use of universal energy,
before fi nally returning to psychological therapy under the
guiding hand of Dr. Silvia Fustenberg in New York.
With the professional help of this remarkable
woman and professional, I have been able to perceive a series
of social archetypes interiorized from my infancy–the absorption
of lack–that collided, that entered into confl ict with my personal
and professional desires and projects that I wanted, in my most
conscious part, to work on and complete.
Series 18 Gallery
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