jackbritboy
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These photos are from my Black and White technique. In this class, for the first time in my life I have shot in film and been in the darkroom! It was a very interesting experience!!! I experimented some new things such that I tried to put two of me in 1 photo, doing everything in the dark room. NO PHOTOSHOP INVOLVED for this process. Poor me! hahaha
The night encounter
Carl Jung has suggested that each human being has originally a feeling of wholeness, a powerful and complete sense of Self. And from the Self—the totality of the psyche—the individualized ego-consciousness emerges as the individual grows up. However, this separation can never become final without severe injury to the original sense of wholeness. And the ego must continually return to the Original Self in order to maintain a condition of psychic health. From this premise, I started this project, The Night Encounter, to explore deeper the relations between the ego consciousness and the original self by personifying them as two (facially) identical human figures: one is in black modern clothes and the other fully nude. The modern man symbolizes the ego consciousness, the individuality he has that separates him from the rest of nature while the nude figure is the reflection of the primitive man, of the total wholeness that man once believed—he was a part of nature. In a smaller scale, the black clothed figure is the internal shadow of the self and the nude figure is the primitive, animalistic side of man that has been suppressed in the civilized society. Through six photographs, I explore different aspects/ situations when these two forces encounter one another. I used different objects in different locations to evoke various emotions/ thoughts from the viewers. I do not want to have a very strong, obvious narrative flow through the images because I want to keep the meaning and intentions open to the viewers’ interpretations.
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These photos are from my Black and White technique. In this class, for the first time in my life I have shot in film and been in the darkroom! It was a very interesting experience!!! I experimented some new things such that I tried to put two of me in 1 photo, doing everything in the dark room. NO PHOTOSHOP INVOLVED for this process. Poor me! hahaha
The night encounter
Carl Jung has suggested that each human being has originally a feeling of wholeness, a powerful and complete sense of Self. And from the Self—the totality of the psyche—the individualized ego-consciousness emerges as the individual grows up. However, this separation can never become final without severe injury to the original sense of wholeness. And the ego must continually return to the Original Self in order to maintain a condition of psychic health. From this premise, I started this project, The Night Encounter, to explore deeper the relations between the ego consciousness and the original self by personifying them as two (facially) identical human figures: one is in black modern clothes and the other fully nude. The modern man symbolizes the ego consciousness, the individuality he has that separates him from the rest of nature while the nude figure is the reflection of the primitive man, of the total wholeness that man once believed—he was a part of nature. In a smaller scale, the black clothed figure is the internal shadow of the self and the nude figure is the primitive, animalistic side of man that has been suppressed in the civilized society. Through six photographs, I explore different aspects/ situations when these two forces encounter one another. I used different objects in different locations to evoke various emotions/ thoughts from the viewers. I do not want to have a very strong, obvious narrative flow through the images because I want to keep the meaning and intentions open to the viewers’ interpretations.