Digital print, 2014

 

 

 

Circumambulatio (from Latin circum around and ambulatus to go) is circling around a sacred object or idol. Carl Jung uses this ritual action as a metaphor for the act of self-realization, where the subconscious represents the center, and the conscious the circular itself. He describes the process of self-realization with active imagination.

 

The segments are taken from Disney's animated movies. The characters weren't manually removed, the picked out scenes were those where no one appears; only still nature and landscapes. They are supposed to be less, or absolutely not narrative.

 

These cartoons have a specific goal; to represent the fairytale, the forces of good and bad, and the ultimate winning of the good ones. By completely decontextualizing these fragments, the observer is invited to attribute them his own meaning, which becomes their only meaning. These free associations trigger the process of auto-observation, the meeting of the conscious and subconscious.