Voces Insolitas

Voces Insolitas is created as a shadow box.

The collaboration process was through a cycle of creation-interpretation-reaction-creation-interpretation-reaction- creation and so on.

1. Krista reacted to "Voces Insolitas"

I look at the lady’s left arm. She is holding a leaf or feather.

Could that part of the painting become abstract? Instead of an arm, what about something to represent incarceration? Maybe incorporating some random wording in Spanish? Or some barbed wire or bars?

Could you think about clouds somewhere in the painting?

2. Krista revised the artist statement for the collaboration. She asked Rosa if she would like to include a brief quote by Carl Jung, Rosa's mentor and inspiration.

Revised artist statement :

Our theme: "Unheard Voices"

Connect in spirit with incarcerated people who made errors early in life, when their brains were immature.

These are people who eventually come to know themselves. And they reflect on finding common ground with other beings, human or animal. Imprisonment, counseling, support groups, volunteering. Self-realization and wisdom come from many sources. Over time, forgiveness enters their hearts. Sometimes a Higher Being speaks to them. Or their ancestors, their cultural heritage. Some find their way through music, art, writing, a creative life.

So they can begin a journey to forgive those who jailed them, judges and juries and lawyers, and the whole criminal justice system, which judges the time, skin color, parents and birth circumstances of the young people who made mistakes. No one controls these circumstances. They earn the right to have their voice heard.

Native people, in this land for centuries, find ways to look at the life cycle, ponder beginnings (birth) and ends (death), interpret dreams and use ritual to be thankful for bounty and to honor ancestors. Their spiritual parents are Mother Earth and Father Sky.

3. Rosa suggested two quotes by Carl Jung.

"The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge."

Carl Gustav Jung [Aion]

"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."

Carl G. Jung [Alchemical Studies]

4. Krista reacted to Rosa’s selected quotes from Jung. She felt Jung's quote about the shadow and its relation to self-knowledge best fit their collaborative theme.

5. Then Rosa reacted. She said "I suggest these phrases from Jung in relation to the archetype of the shadow, as the first phase of the process of this first work. The swarm of rampaging bees symbolize unconscious reactive emotions."

"The open window is the symbol of freedom through the imagination where I will add the black clouds, I will also place the bars with wires in front of the painting as a symbolism of imprisonment."

"The bees on the dress represent the attempt at alignment and the need for self-control of emotions, an aspect of reflection and order of thoughts."