The shadow

                                                             The shadow
Not quite suggestive for the atmosphere of the work, the shadow represents a space in our subconscious where we discharge our negative emotions\thoughts   
    It is an oil painting made in aprox 2015, a symbolist suprearealist painting.
    Inspired by Carl Jung writings, this work illustrates the discharged emotions that after a long time spent in "the shadow " they tend to show up under different forms of behaviours.
     Like the cocoon from which the butterfly rise, so are the negative thoughts  that show up. Here is a optimistic point of view, in which all the discharched emotions will come eventualy at surface in forms of learned lessons and after being accepted and understood, they will help in development of the individual
     The species of the butterflies are not chosen randomly, but with a purpose, so the central moth is a Moon Moth, the Moon itself being a symbol for the subconsious, and being in antithesis with the other butterfly, the Sun Butterfly, which is the conscious, the awaken.