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MET Cloisters, New York city
december 2025
The Unicorn Tapestries at the MET Cloisters in New York City depict a stag hunt, ending in the creatures captivity. Their meaning is much debated, argued as a symbol of Christ, or the tamed lover. Depth Psychology emerged out of an attempt to understand the role and function of image in psychic life, seeking to know the ultimately unknowable world of the unconscious, represented by incomplete pictures. Carl Jung defended this world of psyche (soul) as ontologically real, in which the contents of psyche could be engaged with and become known, broadening the field of psychology to include the archetypal, symbolic, and mythic nature of the unconscious—recognizing parallels of symbology across cultures which he referred to as the collective unconscious. Jung expanded the horizons of psychology into spiritual territory by including the imaginal as a bridge to the unknown. Imagination could be valued as the mediator between inner and outer worlds, translating the symbolic language of the psyche into creative form, or eros.
In this view, psyche is fundamentally imaginal, and represented by the feminine. The feminine has historically been associated with the unconscious. Traditionally in solar myth, represented by the masculine principle, or consciousness, the hero’s task is to extricate and liberate the captive feminine. Psyche as the feminine represents the foreign "other", expressing a dangerous quality, she beholds the alluring, seductive, illusionary features that disables mans "upper" faculties of reason, animation, and vitality, and instead provokes madness. However, because she is his call to adventure, she is inevitably repressed, and represents mans fear of transformation. Defence against ones own transformation instils the qualities of the unconscious, namely: the body, imagination, fantasy, intuition, earth, pleasure, desire, yearning, and primal impulse—as the much feared feminine, the irrational—that which must be tamed.
Learn more about the inner lover, here.
Chaco canyon, New mexico
September 2024
A sunrise ceremony with Solar Astrophysicist Cherilynn Morrow, exploring the archaeoastronomy of Chaco Canyon. Later, lying within the open ruins beneath the passing Milky Way, the alignment between sky and structure becomes visible—each architectural form echoing celestial movement. These sites reveal the deep cosmological attunement of ancient civilizations who built in harmony with nature’s cycles as a way of locating themselves within the greater whole. As Cherilynn Morrow so beautifully stated: "it is not anti-science to be attuned". The petroglyphs that remain here are reminders that image preceded language—the original language of psyche.
sicily, italy
january 2025
The Valley of Temples in Agrigento, Sicily, pictures a bronze statue of fallen Icarus, followed by the Teatro Greco in Taormina. The word theatre comes from Greek theaomai—to look upon, to behold—naming sight as the fundamental human sense. Overlooking the Bay of Naxos, with Mount Etna profiling the stage, the theatre reveals a continuity between nature and culture as a single unfolding expression. As culture emerges through attunement with place, theatre and myth give it form and story—where psyche becomes animated.
tamil nadu, india
july 2023
A visit to Gangaikonda Cholapuram, and the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple—the living Hindu temples devoted to Lord Shiva, where devotion, architecture, art, and cosmology converge. Here, Shiva is not experienced as a distant deity but a present force, ritually invoked through sound, movement, and fire. As Nataraja, Lord of the Dance, Shiva embodies the cosmic rhythm of creation and destruction, death and rebirth—the pulse that sustains the cosmos. This image, central to Indian art, reappears across time and cultures.
In the case of Indian art, the word darÅ›ana translates to sight, to see and be seen—a reciprocity of consciousness where perception is a shared experience. In this exchange between the observer and the observed, the boundary between self and other softens, leading to the eventual loss of personal ego, and allowing one to enter into a state of non-dual recognition. The purpose of darÅ›ana is to see the object within and of oneself. DarÅ›ana can also be defined as Indian ways of thinking which bridge the two paradigms of Indian wisdom traditions together, namely: existence as connected to the outside world of objects, and the inside world of experience—valuing likeness, and sameness, as the actualizers of self becoming. Through relationship, art, form, creation, and matter, become mirrors through which consciousness recognizes itself.
