My photography critic friends will undoubtedly chime in, but the new Black King series is coming together. Frankly, so far I think it includes 14 works, paintings on panel, though I may get one done on canvas too.
Black King XIV, oil on panel, 20 x 30, 2018
I'm not big on blogging unfinished works, but this one is unlikely to change. Funny enough, i think I'm working on 21 white paintings at the same time. Maybe I will blog one of those too.
Here's Jung on the Black King:
'the nigredo of the process of individuation on the other hand is a subjectively experienced process brought about by the subject's painful, growing awareness of his shadow aspects'. It could be described as a moment of maximum despair, that is a prerequisite to personal development. As individuation unfolds, so 'confrontation with the shadow produces at first a dead balance, a standstill that hampers moral decisions and makes convictions ineffective or even impossible...nigredo, tenebrositas, chaos, melancholia'. Here is 'the darkest time, the time of despair, disillusionment, envious attacks; the time when Eros and Superego are at daggers drawn, and there seems no way forward...nigredo, the blackening'
