NP - Carl Jung's Autobiography

[Ian Livingston]

Very cool. Lots of movement, texture there, and the fiery / leonine
colors are great. I suspect CGJ would approve, actually. It's got that
kind of a mandala thing going on. Have you seen the Red Book? Check it
out if you haven't. Some of Jung's most fascinating artwork.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> The attached.
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> On Sunday, January 12, 2014, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> Yes. Irises are a beautiful example. They are the Fleur de Lis, the emblem
>> of New Orleans and Florence, and unknown other's. I attach a photo of my
>> most recent painting. It started as a very free-form fleur de lis, but soon
>> morphed into the face of a lion or dragon. A fierce creature, but gentle
>> here in this face.
>>
>> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Sunday, January 12, 2014, Ian Livingston wrote:
>>>
>>> That reminds me that I need to trim the old greens off the irises
>>> before the next warm front starts things popping.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
>>> >
>>> > From the prologue:
>>> >
>>> > Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
>>> > Its
>>> > true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears
>>> > above
>>> > ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral
>>> > apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and
>>> > civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet
>>> > I
>>> > have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath
>>> > the
>>> > eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome
>>> > remains.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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