Very very cool indeed....
I love the style!!


Nothing pretentious in that at all...It's a very interesting idea, one to ponder...

Thanks!

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This is beautifully executed! Thanks for sharing!

I like the evil phallic symbols.

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Nice concept, and nice piece.
the notion of a collective subconscious is not such a pretentious one. I've actually been thinking about it myself recently. Kant says that with the sensation of the beautiful there are certain images or things that we can experience in nature that bring forth this feeling with a universal nature. Words like (a birds) nest bring up certain images or feelings that we all have in common. Hegel argues that once the mind understands the way that the mind itself works that there are defiantly certain 'inter-subjective' truths that characteristically belong to being human. inter-subjective in the sense that it does not concern itself with the the object or objective, but the sensation that we subjectively feel towards something that we can not feel unless we in some way believe any other human capable of such feelings.
In that sense channeling certain things through a subconscious level just means your acting as a receptor to all the things that are happening and have happened before. Whats nice about that is that it means there is some kind of unity amongst people.

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"The Individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; "
Its all about the modifacations and decisions you choose to make.

Thanks. They make me think of stone circles - which I suppose were just phallic symbols representing fertility for cultures that relied on a good harvest for their survival. Infact, I think church spires are probably phallic symbols as well - and totem poles. This is what I mean about universal themes that occur in all cultures. Apparently even the humble garden gnome is a phallic fertility symbol, intended to make the garden grow better (I saw a programme about it once - those pointy red hats are essentially just male members - fascinating!)

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I agree, I'm all for the idea of unity, and finding common traits between different races and cultures. In some ways I think I'm trying to assimilate as many different mythologies and styles as I can in my work - in an attempt to create a truly post-modern melting-pot that's neither old-fashioned nor modern, to create something that's original and unique to me, yet somehow still recognisable and universal. I'm not sure how far I believe in a pre-programmed collective subconscious, but I do think think that the conscious mind feeds into the subconscious, and as we all live within the same dream, it's almost a form of arrogance to claim ownership of one's own imagination.

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Never knew that about garden gnomes. LOL!

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This is my current background for my computer screen right now^^

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