We’ve been back in Canada for less than a month. This was our third full year at the university in Changzhou. I have to admit that keeping busy has helped me cope with the shadows that don’t quite go away. Now that I am back in Canada, I am taking advantage of the new timing for the thirty photos in thirty days for a complete book. The past years photo book challenges have been done while I was retired.
This year’s theme, like the other books, focuses on Jungian psychology making a series I call “Through a Jungian Lens.” I intend on using railway tracks to tell a story. There are no nude images in any of the books though I have to admit that I was nude on more than one occasion taking some of the photos. This is the case today. I took this image as well as a few other “safe” images for the opening section of the book. Today is day three for the project. Here are a few words of the book as it is developing:
Part One – Dawn
“Before the hint of light appears, there is only darkness, and in the darkness there is no sense of anything but the darkness. There is no awareness, just an all encompassing darkness. Out of the darkness, a thin sliver of light begins to bring shape and form. And with that thin sliver of light, there begins to be a separation from the darkness.Within the womb of a mother, a promise of life is present though that life has yet to be born, yet to be possessed by a soul which will merge with the body. The foetus floats in darkness, waiting. The soul is part of the darkness, waiting. Both wait for that moment of time when light will become present signalling the beginning of life, the beginning of consciousness.”
My hope is to complete this book which is a serious attempt to describe the process of individuation as a journey.