Ink and acrylics on cardboard,
A3 size, 2026.
This drawing relates to a Tarot card: The Seven of Wands.
“Self-exploration can be risky at times. Newly won perspectives can upset old habits and attitudes, and shake the very foundation of our belief systems (also the card of The Tower). Yet this is an essential step in any transformational process. /…/ What we let go and lose in this process never has been really ours; what is destroyed never has been rooted in our true being.”
“But the right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings. It is a longissima via, not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus, a path whose labyrinthine twists and turns are not lacking in terrors.
It is on this longissima via that we meet with those experiences which are said to be “inaccessible.” Their inaccessibility really consists in the fact that they cost us an enormous amount of effort: they demand the very thing we most fear, namely the “wholeness” which we talk about so glibly and which lends itself to endless theorizing, though in actual life we give it the widest possible berth.
It is infinitely more popular to go in for “compartment psychology,” where the left-hand pigeon-hole does not know what is in the right.”
Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy by C. G. Jung.
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