Redemption is a work.
First Nigredo...
'the first nigredo, that of the unio naturalis, is an objective state, visible from the outside only...an unconscious state of non-differentiation between self and object, consciousness and the unconscious'.
Here the subject is unaware of the unconscious; i.e. the connection with the instincts'.
The illustration is collage (linen) and oil on paper, 2014.
Try to wrap your head around this
Monoprint Eight
This is a print I did in July of 2017.
It's funny, because it probably wasn't my favorite at the time I did it. Still, keeping one's head in the sand probably never helps anyone.
I actually ended up doing a whole series of cat prints last summer. I am still looking at them.
I read a post somewhere by a woman who was trying to simultaneously trying to dog-proof and cat-proof parts of her house. The dogs were easy, she wrote. But the cats, the cats were just like water.
About Cocula
Nearly without exception, when I see photographs of the mountains in Guerrero, I'm struck by the seeming lack of grandeur.
"Most of the mountains belong to the Sierra Madre del Sur. The exception is the mountains of the Taxco area which belong to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and include the small mountain ranges of the Sierra de Sultepec, Sierra de Zacualpan and the Sierra de Zultepec. These are connected to the same volcanic system as the Nevado de Toluca." - [That's from Wikipedia]
Guerrero is as dark as you want to make it, but unlike regions, or states, or places in other kinds of economies, there are no abandoned regions or states in Mexico. Appalachia is abandoned. Lots of people likely feel abandoned in Guerrero, but the state is important.
The image above is a Holy Week procession in Cocula, Guerrero, from wikimedia commons.
