WINDOW ON CHOPIN’S STR./ Langas Šopeno g.
Ink and acrylics on cardboard,
A3 size, 2026.
This drawing relates to a Tarot card: The 3 of Wands.
“In alchemy there are three as well as four regimina or procedures, three as well as four colours. There are always four elements, but often three of them are grouped together, with the fourth in a special position—sometimes earth, sometimes fire.
Mercurius is of course quadratus, but he is also a three-headed snake or simply a triunity. This uncertainty has a duplex character—in other words, the central ideas are ternary as well as quaternary. The psychologist cannot but mention the fact that a similar puzzle exists in the psychology of the unconscious: the least differentiated or “inferior” function is so much contaminated with the collective unconscious that, on becoming conscious, it brings up among others the archetype of the self as well—τὸ ἕν τέταρτον, as Maria Prophetissa says.
Four signifies the feminine, motherly, physical; three the masculine, fatherly, spiritual. Thus the uncertainty as to three or four amounts to a wavering between the spiritual and the physical—a striking example of how every human truth is a last truth but one.”
Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy by C. G. Jung.
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