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VOYAGES IN
THE IMAGINAL REALM

 

These paintings explore journeys in the realm said to exist between the Imagination and the Spirit.  The Romantics called it Imagination with a capital I, to differentiate it from ordinary imagination or fancy.  The Sufis used a form of reverie to explore the Imaginal in their spiritual activity. Jung saw the imaginal as a way of working with the Collective Unconscious.

Here the paintings all share a darker palette  and a preference for the symbolic and the dream-like.