Artists and Synchronisms

Artists are, as Christian Bobin appointed, dowsers or healers who show us the way to reach the veins of water points,. The creators capture what is in the air at present and communicate it to the world through culture. Draw from their literary, theater, film, painting and works, models or inspirations are reflected in our life in decisive moments.

 

The moment when a work of art enters a life, rather than a simple selective attention, namely the fact point out something that corresponds to our desire at that time, reached by a synchronistic factor. Selective attention and our subjectivity are not enough to explain why it is there that work, in that precise moment of our personal and collective history, but does not explain all that work is associated with a transformation in our lives.

 

The main criticism of synchronicity is precisely that resource to our selective attention, our desire to find signs where there are none. The harshest criticism will in the sense that a synchronistic event seems to be just a subjective creation of the person. (...)

 

A message from the collective unconscious lands in front of us in the field of reality, at a crucial moment of our life, using a work of art and urging us to understand well and moving in one direction.

 

The strength of an artist consists without doubt directly extract the roots of collective knowledge in order to germinate flowers symbolically able to soothe the tears of the soul. As Jung said: "For our leaves reach the sky, our roots must descend to the hell of chaos because the artist is maintained in the center, in the heart of chaos ...."

.The Necessary Coincidences  Pag 88-89

Jean Francois Veznia

 

Vertume & Pomona -Camille Claudel-