Yo Misma

Myself is the breakdown of my unity into the four instances of the self that Carl Jung proposes: self, ego, animus and shadow, starting from the internal orbit to the external respectively.

• Ego: conscious fragment that manifests and brings light to the conscious/unconscious system.
• Shadow: fragment of the unconscious with qualities unknown to the ego, generally negative impulses that we prefer to ignore.
• Animus: hidden sacred voice of the unconscious, personification of insistent, hard and inexorable semi-conscious reflections.
• Self: most intimate core of the psyche, the everything contained in the vital psychic center.

This work represents the totality of my being since it not only writes my social hemisphere, but anchors it with its scientific counterpart in the form of an atom. That is to say, this work is, to this day - since we are matter and matter lives in constant transformation -, the synthesis of my minimum unit that houses all my resulting potentials.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Three characters live within my story: Ego, tricolor, past, present and future condensed in a feminine form with soft curves; Shadow, of yellow tones since once a person accepts his shadow, it stops being nauseating and begins to be happy, but inevitably sharp since it is the antithesis of the soft Ego and it is still our most splintering form; Animus, red like the blinding and obstinate anger of the father who shapes him, scribbled, ergo, capable of redrawing in his resilient form.

Although I did not use any real artist, my atom is a redesign of Bohr’s atomic model since it involves a nucleus and electrons - characters - that orbit it in a circular way.

Diana Taylor describes how the Internet allows us to upload the body to the network, through the projection of the presence and consciousness of the body, without accelerating the dissolution of the self, simply adding a quota of importance to the identity of the body and its connectivity, its interface. My Self does not get rid of its empirical nature, but rather projects and adapts to the three-dimensional web interface and my characters reformulate their connection with each other to express themselves in the form of multimedia art.

Philip Galanter describes modernity as those values ​​rooted in the sciences, proposing the latter as that capable of achieving progress through rational understanding, such as the postulation of atomic models through scientific experimentation. Its antithesis is postmodernism, closely linked to the humanities that reject totalitarianism and keeps its values ​​far from fixations, such as metamorphic orbits in time and space. As a summary, our author posits artists of complexity as a bridge between both worlds, capable of uniting both cultures, using the question “How can we bring the world of art to where we already are?” as a trigger. In my work I propose to unite sciences and humanities, atom and self, bringing my Self to the world where I already am.

Literature

• JUNG, Carl. (1964). “El hombre y sus símbolos”.
• TAYLOR, Diana. (2012). “Los nuevos usos de performance”.
• GALANTER, Philip. (2011). “Entre dos fuegos: el arte-ciencia y la guerra entre ciencia y humanidades”.