How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

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The Shadow Self – Jungian Theory

Shadow Self

First to clarify some jargon in Jung & Freud: The SELF of each individual is made up of the Conscious and the Unconscious. The Conscious is called the EGO and is the part (or time spent) of the Conscious in which the individual has identified or determined as defining who he or she is. PSYCHE refers to both personal mind and the larger or Universal mind. The Unconscious includes, according to Jung, both a “Collective” unconscious composed of biological, racial and cultural memories or trace engrams. Possibly there is a DNA-based carrier for these.

There is also a PERSONAL unconscious which contains, amongst other things, REPRESSED sensations, feelings, thought or intuitions which do not conform with the Ego’s consciously decided role or identity- picture. Jung’s shadow-self therapy (which I practice occasionally) draws upon this rejected collection of material as a RESOURCE which is available for those brave enough to explore them. The bravery is in temporarily discarding (advice of) the Ego required to access these memories or sensations. Jung calls this assemblage or rejected alter-ego the Shadow. Jung thought that his form of therapy best suited those approaching middle or old age after having achieved some degree of success in family life or in social status, but who now suffered a sense of meaninglessness or alienation. Freud’s sex-centred therapy is generally thought to be more suitable for younger people. However, I have observed that some types of people (of whatever age) are drawn to express themselves via art/ images/ mysticism and narrative, whilst others (of any age) better conform to ID- driven Freudian types of therapy.

Folks largely SELF-SELECT the type of therapy which appeals to them, and if they are interested enough to make the EFFORT to have an Enochian Chess reading, then Shadow therapy and resulting experiential phenomena is often appropriate.

What the therapy seeks is INDIVIDUATION, a process whereby we become integrated and complete by not only facing the Shadow, but recognising and incorporating it into the Self. This overcomes a fundamental duality in human nature that we touched upon in part one. Archetypes from the unconscious are worked through in art, religious or Meditational practices, and used in the mastery of the Self. An individuated person can see that the `personality’ is just one of many possibilities, a mask even, that can be put on or put aside appropriate to the conditions which social necessity imposes on us. Dream analysis has a larger role in Jungian work than in other therapies, because Jung believed that in dreams we can best access the archetypes and the shadow.

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Light Painting History

History

Photography comes from the Greek words phos (“light”), and graphis (“stylus”, “paintbrush”) or graphí, together they mean “drawing with light”.

Étienne-Jules Marey and Georges Demeny: Light Painting 1889

Étienne-Jules Marey and Georges Demeny first met when Demeny enrolled in a physiology course being taught by Marey. The soon became close associates. Together they established a programme of research which was to lead to the creation of the ‘Station Physiologique’, which opened in 1882 in the Bois de Boulogne. Marey and Demeny developed several photographic techniques to study the movements of everything from humans to horses. In 1889 Demeny attached incandescent bulbs to the joints of an assistant and created the first known light painting photograph “Pathological walk from in front”.

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Time Lapsed Dancers – BODIES IN MOVEMENT: ‘NUDE’ BY SHINICHI MARUYAMA

You can touch movement. Like it was a creamy sustance, or an elaborate plaster sculpture. At least that’s how it would seem by observing the dancers photographed in series “Nude” by Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama, in collaboration with choreographer Jessica Lang.

Behind every image is the perfection of a human body that is liquefied in time and movement, decomposing into millionths of a second to then recompose into a compact three-dimensional sequence.

Maruyama was introduced to photographer by a teacher at his elementary school and experimented for years the portrayal of movement, especially in water, as we described in this previous article.

With “Nude”, he takes the study of the subject to a further stage, trying to refine it in relation to the unraveling of time that thus becomes the “painter of photography”.

In this series he in fact uses much more elaborate techniques than in his previous works. For “Nude”, each image is the digital synthesis of 10 thousand unique shots that compose the bodies of the dancers.

A century ago, scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey inspired many artists through his photo camera with which he was able to take 12 shots a second. But with the current technology, Maruyama managed to capture 2 thousand photos a second and blend them into a kinetic cream through the use of new tools.

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The Sinking Project – Stavronikita Project

With his project “The Sinking World“ Andreas Franke brings a strange, forgotten underwater world back to life and stages realms of an unprecedented kind.

The pictures engender extreme polarities: the soft, secretive underwater emptiness of sleeping shipwrecks is paired with real, authentic sceneries full of liveliness and vigor, thus creating a new world, equally bizarre and irresistibly entangling.
The resting giants at the bottom of the sea do not only form fascinating and unique backgrounds for Andreas Franke’s sceneries. They also constitute the best exhibition sites imaginable.
These spectacular underwater galleries make divers fall under their spell and display the work of the ocean itself. During the weeks and months under water the ocean bequeaths impressive, peerless traces to the pictures. It adorns them with a certain, peculiar patina, endowing them with the countenance of bizarre evanescence and transfiguring them into rare beauties.

The SS Stavronikita lies at the bottom of the ocean at 13.8 N, 59.38 W, right off the Caribbean island of Barbados. It is the spot Andreas Franke has discovered and chosen to stage a game full of overflowing decadence and exuberance.

A traveling salesman, the Stavronikita fell victim to a devastating fire over 20 years ago and with no hope for recovery it was lowered into the silent depths to lie there – fossilized into an artificial reef which one thought would sleep for all eternity.

But life clawed at the ship. For decades the sea enwrapped it with strange and splendid furnishings. A blinding submarine magnificence moved in, assumed command of the desolate freighter and made it vibrate with life. Innumerable shimmering corals, sponges and shells rampantly started clinging onto the stern, the masts and the walls and swarms of fish of the most varied natures began twitching restlessly round and about the scorched freighter.

The wreck of the sunken Stavronikita is a stunning symbol of life’s irrepressible avidity. Life cannot be drained. It cannot be exhausted. It unfolds, it thrives, it proliferates, burgeons and multiplies. Right off the coast of Barbados it celebrates its expansive power, substantiating itself like a glimmering monster that devours and engulfs its victims.

This swarming, decadent parade of life conquered the mind of Andreas Franke when diving on the premises of the SS Stavronikita. The well-known Viennese artist, who is famous for his meticulously construed photographic stagings, became possessed with the desire to make the Greek freighter into his next stage and thus the successor to the USS Vandenberg. He would create surprising, bizarre and equally bewitching images by combining photographs of the wreck with sceneries produced in a studio.

The sight of the ship was like a landscape that had dropped its veil, vain and flirtatious. And it was almost as if the Stavronikita craved a mirror for the ever progressing, flickering life it displayed. But what above the surface would correspond to all of this submarine ado?

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“Time Lapse Pictures of Couple are Oddly Intimate” – Article

German photographer Paul Schneggenburger takes pictures of couples sleeping together throughout the night, and the results are both intimate and eery.

“What happens to lovers while they are sleeping?” Schneggenburger wonders in his artist statement. “Is it a sleeping just next to each other, each on his own, or is there a sharing of certain places or emotions? Is it a nocturnal lovers’ dance, maybe a kind of unaware performed tenderness, or does one turn the back on each other?”

Each picture from “The Sleep of the Beloved” series was shot as black and white, long-time exposures taken over the course of six hours. The room with the bed was in the artist’s live-in studio — Schneggenburger would turn on the self-constructed “timer” of the camera and leave while the couples slept.

The project began as his thesis work at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2010, but has since become a long-term project that anyone can take part in.

The photos are currently on display at the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna.

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