ABSTRACT
Visual art remains among the most powerful – and demonstrative – imaginal provocateurs of life feeling: the neutrality of creative materials, and the unity present in a cohesive application of the Principles of Design, open a psychic window for the Observant to gaze through, into the symbolic life of mankind. The creative spirit has a rhythm of bringing forth such spirit, enriching (or, destroying) polarities for artists and writers to explore and to re-create, to re-imagine, over, and again. Engaging this life-spirit with creative materials is perhaps the initiation of the imaginal journey – raw image (and, colour pigment) connect with the capacity for openness, creating a visual portal with the potential to stimulate and invigorate our psychic lives. The symbolic emergence is consistent with what Jung has described as an archetype of the Self: the appearance at different times and in different ways is as a “portrait” of a symbol.
