Ellen Maire: Mapping My Own Subconcious

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life."-Carl Jung.

Well lately I've been on this quest to further myself and to look inside of myself and figure out what's going on and why and how to just let things be and let them evolve themselves. This personal evolution is going well, and I think especially in the past couple of days I have definitely been creating some awesome things and thinking and finding and reading some really cool stuff. It's a very delicate balance of having control over yourself and really just letting go. I had always thought that the two would be like magnets being forced to attract, but really it's all anout the self realisation that some thihngs yhou have the ability to change and there are some things that are out of your control, and they are that way for a reason.

The following, I think, are great examples of artists letting go and simply using their mind to guide their body and their hands into creating something that may now be exactly what they set out to do in the first place, but is great all the same. for art to me is all about pushing the boundaries of everyday thought and getting people to think a little bit more, especially about things that they might repress in everyday life. I myself have fallen into the habit of repressing the negative things, but they come back to bite you in the ass eventually. We must, this is imperitive to me now, embrace everything, for the little things when conquered will not set seed and then grow into giant problems. I guess it's all about prevention.

A great site to check is here for a good surrealist look on things.

Painting and ink drawings by the talented Elina Merenmies