Oh! It's not clear to me whether you can only share one painting per post. But I've tried to share two and only see one, so I guess the limit MB limit is not so high. But ok! I did this piece way back in 1989 while living in New York City. I called it "Angel of the Staten Island Ferry", having sketched this violin busker on the boat as he indeed "took me to heaven" with his music, and then painted it later. I think this speaks to the main theme of paintings I've been inspired to do...though the symbols are (naturally) different every time.

I'm extremely interested in the whole subject of Creativity, which ties in with my interest in Jungian Psychology. My two favorite books on the topic of creativity are ART AND THE CREATIVE UNCONSCIOUS by Erich Neumann, an Israeli Jungian analyst, and the more recent JUNG ON ART by a Dutch writer named by Tjeu van den Berk. I relate strongly to the concept of the "Ego-Self Axis" that came via a Jungian author, Edward Edinger, in the '50s or maybe '60s. Basically, the conscious person is the ego, or you could call it "consciousness", and the Self is (and this is more or less true of most Jungian writing), the totality of the psyche, conscious AND unconscious...pretty close to "the God within," which I believe Jung called it once, or came close to calling it.

Creativity is a tough racket, for me. OK, that's a joke. It's one of the few things that seems NOT to be a racket, to me. But inherently, one...I should speak for myself alone, actually...I tend to run dry from time to time. I have to "get to a new place" to find fresh springs of creativity within...to do so, I have to struggle with the habits that tend to limit me...habits of thought and behavior.

But it seems there is no alternative TO that struggle!

I'm interested in most things that people interested in created expression have to say about the subject! 

xox
MZ