{"id":1230,"date":"2016-03-01T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/en\/2016\/03\/01\/animus-chrysalis-mortis\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T22:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:23:37","slug":"animus-chrysalis-mortis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/en\/animus-chrysalis-mortis\/","title":{"rendered":"ANIMUS CHRYSALIS MORTIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this body of work I was inspired by the surrealist and deeply symbolic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jungian archetypes, and Greek mythology. I created a personal language of symbols, then made a card set and selected at random a different set for each new painting. This method taps into the elements of subconscious influence and chance, as well as mirrors the cut-up method of writing created by one of my favorite authors William Burroughs.From these subconscious suggestions I created a lush and layered symbolic world that explores the realm of childhood, memory and longing. Ghosts and gardens, snakes and skulls frame fever-dream scenes of wounded goddesses slayed open, fecund gardens growing from their wounds. Vibrant strange gardens populated with insects and dream imagery portray a psychedelic dance between life and death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n