Each part of the 8 paintings in the second series of work is signifying a character, each vastly different. This the viewer is asked to create them self.
Please read the following if you would like to collaborate with me simply submit your own image either straight onto this blog or email me .
ON REFLECTION
Donna Southern
Solo Exhibition
AN Magazine
On-line
November 2008
Who are you?
An investigation.
Four years of research on Carl G. Jung, ‘Man & his symbols’, Robert Graves ‘War of the Trees’, a BBC documentary of family dynamics on the cold war, based on R.D Laing, ‘Who am I’ has produced the following collection of works.
How do you feel?
As a society we are taught to behave in certain ways if we want to be accepted. Some people cannot conform, others conform outside there own homes, some conform within the home but not outside. It can be either way, between family and friends or work and society; our experience can be positive or negative in a myriad of ways.
We become successful in positive ways and sometimes our behavior is dysfunctional which can negate our pathway.
In the past, this behavior has been diagnosed to set up wars! ‘The Cold War’, R. D. Laing, a psychologist researched the dynamics within a family and diagnosed that of victim, rescuer and persecutor. The majority of British families are still based on this model of control. Schools, working environments and armies have also been based on this model; fortunately this is currently changing within our society.
This continues on the next posting.
