Melanie Steffl

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I paint with oils, print with ink, sculpt with clay, play my violin, grow animals and vegetables, travel, dream and theorize. And then I write all about it here.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The Young Woods

oil on linen, 34x42in.


What happens when you never allow your forests to mature? Can the children?

from C.G. Jung:
"The forlorn-ness of consciousness in our world is due primarily to the loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for that which is irrationally given- including the objective psyche, which is all that consciousness is not."