Brian Burris: painting from the Unconscious |
| black azrael cover art, Codex: Fragments & Schemata 24X30 acrylic on canvas |
| black sun 24X30 acrylic on canvas (sold, private collection) |
| in the year of the flood 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| when even shadows burn 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| remote ways 24X30 acrylic on canvas (sold, private collection) |
| these black shores 36X48 acrylic |
| du Purgatoire 30X40 acrylic |
| three days 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| place of the jugglers 54X54 acrylic on canvas (sold, private collection) |
| veil of tears 64X48 acrylic on canvas |
| calculation for twilight 30X40 acrylic (sold, private collection) |
| torso in freckle red 24X30 acrylic on canvas (sold, private collection) |
| this imminent heat* 24X30 acrylic (sold, private collection) |
Here I am working toward a
psychology of soul,
based in a psychology of
image.
(the interest of depth
psychology) is in the
unconscious levels of the
psyche.
(Archetypes) tend to be
metaphors rather than
things. We find ourselves
less able to say what an
archetype is literally and
more inclined to describe
them in images.
Let us imagine
archetypes as the deepest
patterns of psychic
functioning,
roots of the soul governing
perspectives we have of
ourselves and the world.
All ways of speaking of
archetypes are translations
from one metaphor or
another. Even expressions
of science and logic are no
less metaphorical than an
image which presents
archetypes as root ideas,
psychic organs, figures of
myth, typical styles of
existence, or dominant
fantasies governing
consciousness.
(of archetypes) emotional
possessive effect, their
bedazzlement of
consciousness so it becomes
blind to its own stance
…an archetype is best
comparable with a god.
James Hillman,
(re-visioning psychology, xi, xii—xiv)
psychology of soul,
based in a psychology of
image.
(the interest of depth
psychology) is in the
unconscious levels of the
psyche.
(Archetypes) tend to be
metaphors rather than
things. We find ourselves
less able to say what an
archetype is literally and
more inclined to describe
them in images.
Let us imagine
archetypes as the deepest
patterns of psychic
functioning,
roots of the soul governing
perspectives we have of
ourselves and the world.
All ways of speaking of
archetypes are translations
from one metaphor or
another. Even expressions
of science and logic are no
less metaphorical than an
image which presents
archetypes as root ideas,
psychic organs, figures of
myth, typical styles of
existence, or dominant
fantasies governing
consciousness.
(of archetypes) emotional
possessive effect, their
bedazzlement of
consciousness so it becomes
blind to its own stance
…an archetype is best
comparable with a god.
James Hillman,
(re-visioning psychology, xi, xii—xiv)
*collaboration with Daniel Ceglinski
