Into That Resonant Dark - MFA Thesis Exhibition - Adam Gabriel Winnie

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• Mon, Apr 3, 2023 - Fri, Apr 7, 2023  

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Into That Resonant Dark - MFA Thesis Exhibition - Adam Gabriel Winnie

My thesis work seeks to develop a greater understanding of the psyche and the depths of consciousness. The investigations operate at the precipice of experience and explore the roles that literal and metaphorical darkness play in the process of individuation. The large-scale drawings originate from a desire for rigorous self-examination in the face of a growing ‘disquiet’, the restlessness and uncertainty everywhere present, tentative, and in transition. The works draw inspiration from descent narratives in mythology and literature while looking towards alchemy and archetypal psychology for their dialectics and symbolism that engages with the mind. Through probing the subterranean world within, Into That Resonant Dark, reinterprets the monomyth of the hero’s journey as a personal quest of transformation. The underworld descent occurs during the phase of initiation that includes the crossing of thresholds, trials, encounters, and symbolic death. These events occur before the revelation and rebirth of the protagonist as master of two worlds. Psychologically, there is a purpose to traveling into the underworld, to initiate and integrate the polarities within us, between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, but also to explore the shadow aspects of self that are all too often ignored.

Reception: April 6th 6-9pm
Welch School Galleries @ Georgia State University
10 Peachtree Center Ave.