#repost Christian Rex van Minnen @van_minnen. 🙎🏼 This piece will be in the duo show "In Heaven Everything Is Fine" with @aaronjohnsonart at @rosskramergallery, opens March 7th. 💪💪 . . . . . . The Jungian concept of Anima is a slippery fish. The shallow read of it, as I’ve understood it so far, is that it’s masculinity’s internalized and imprinted concept of the feminine. Anima is also best buds w the shadow. They sleep on a futon in the basement of your mind while you lay awake all night listening to them fuck. In this show I’m doing with @aaronjohnsonart there are 7 portraits of Anima, 1 of which is huge and in some sense an attempt at understanding this concept collectively; Western machismo as Anima Possessed. Each has a surfer quickly stick and poked, blasted over top. While I dont pretend to be much of a surfer I have found it to be a powerful personal metaphor. I think of it like a superficial adrenaline crazed yet fearful character skimming precariously across the surface of the abyss that is inhabited by those deeper, more disturbing bedfellows of shadow and anima. Someone who visits this territory but briefly, juicing the fear and risk of it all. But its an iterative thing I think. Fear and acceptance doing a goddam do-see-do in and out of the light. In the end is all this flattened? Unified? And truth be told, I’m confused about it all, I don’t think I really get it but I’m certainly feeling it. Going thru it, pushing along towards what I think is a better way for me to be in the world. Utopian. This is what dynamic confusion looks like. “In Heaven Everything Is Fine” opens March 7th @rosskramergallery NYC #aaronjohnsonart #aaronjohnson #rosskramer #rosskramergallery #rkgallery #christianrexvanminnen #inheaveneverythingisfine #armoryshow #armoryweek #nyc https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZEck7lMNH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18w4jbl3eb9z6