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STEVEN MORRIS / ART

DEPTH EXPRESSIONIST

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The alchemists believed transformation didn’t move in a straight line. Nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, rubedo — not stages you pass through and leave behind, but forces that operate simultaneously, all at once, in the same container. The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep! Everything you need to heal A palimpsest is a surface that has been written over — but not quite erased. The earlier marks stay. Faint. Present. Inflecting everything that comes after. As a grad student Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institue, one of my final projects in our Psyche-Nature course, I’m working on a large palimpsest painting grounded in a Goethean, Jungian arts-based inquiry at Torrey Pines, in San Diego near my home. Blessed by the beauty, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard After a long day of writing about theopoesis—the way art becomes a kind of devotional seeing—I needed to step outside and let the world speak back. A day’s passage from Florence to Venice felt like stepping through a shimmering veil—albeit one reached by bullet train and espresso cart—from the marble heart of the Renaissance into a dream precariously balancing on water. Here, beauty was once the leading currency. Silk, spice, and song crossed the Adriatic, each arrival an offering to imagination itself.
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