Rufus Jon Wilson

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

My central aim is to engage the viewer with their unconscious by presenting them with an image or object that speaks the language of dream.

My paintings seem to intrigue the mind by presenting it with something paradoxical that is akin to a riddle, a puzzle or some kind of alchemical language. We naturally seek to make sense of it but when this is not possible in the conscious mind it is left up to the unconscious to draw links between the opposing elements of the picture.

This draws attention to dream and the unconscious which is so under-valued in contemporary society but which has a healing quality. In the words of C.G.Jung;

"If attention is directed to the unconscious, the unconscious will yield up its contents, and these in turn will fructify the conscious like a fountain of living water. For consciousness is just as arid as the unconscious if the two halves of our psychic life are separated."[1]

"...any connection with the cut off part of the psyche is therapeautically effective."[2]

[1]C.G. Jung, "The Collected Works of C.G.Jung", Princeton University Press,1953-59.Vol XIV. p. 163. [2] Op. Cit., C.G.Jung. Vol XIII, p. 346.

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