I am recovering from strep throat (day 4 of antibiotics), and unfortunately I don't have the capacity to properly reflect in my blog, but here are the images and I'm happy to discuss in class tomorrow.
More or less, I found the reading to be much more verbose about the "self" process, almost unnecessarily. At one point I wrote in my notes, "the ego is a pacifier-sucking infant and the hero myths are verbal baby blankets to provide comfort". Clearly I'm not getting the myth thing. However Campbell's comment "In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream". I fell this makes reference to the collective unconscious that you end up accessing whether you are aware or not.
I definitely feel like I was accessing universal symbols during the brief meditation and then the actual art process, but I don't immediately feel any connection to the 3-step hero myth. Anyhoo, my 4 self-portraits are attached, in order: public self, secret self, spiritual self and future self.
More or less, I found the reading to be much more verbose about the "self" process, almost unnecessarily. At one point I wrote in my notes, "the ego is a pacifier-sucking infant and the hero myths are verbal baby blankets to provide comfort". Clearly I'm not getting the myth thing. However Campbell's comment "In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream". I fell this makes reference to the collective unconscious that you end up accessing whether you are aware or not.
I definitely feel like I was accessing universal symbols during the brief meditation and then the actual art process, but I don't immediately feel any connection to the 3-step hero myth. Anyhoo, my 4 self-portraits are attached, in order: public self, secret self, spiritual self and future self.
i think i covered most of this in class, but again, i am struck by the strong distinctions between the spiritual and secret, and how the future pulls the two together. the eyes are really powerful in all four, i love how the size changes in relationship to the focus of each piece.
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