Artists Inspire Artists

Divine Decay featured in “Artists Inspire Artists”.

http://artistsinspireartists.com/mixed-media/divine-decay-kon-markogiannis

Ghosts_Dreams_Memories (work in progress)

“Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken”.

-C.G. Jung

Ghosts_ Dreams_Memories is an ongoing series of surreal photomontages which explore the world of the unconscious mind and psychic phenomena.

On a conceptual level crucial for the development of the work were the theories of psychologist Carl Gustav Jung whose research involved the fields of religion, alchemy, astrology, philosophy, mythology and dreams. According to Jung reality is more complex than what is perceived by the physical senses or revealed by mainstream science -he believed we all possess psychic faculties, albeit usually in undeveloped form.

On an aesthetic level the work was inspired by photographic artists such as Clarence John Laughlin and Jerry Uelsmann whose experimental and multi-layered work questions photographic "truth" and representation. The work was also influenced by "spirit" photographs of the 1800's-1900's which supposedly depict paranormal phenomena such as human auras, levitating bodies, ghostly manifestations, disembodied entities etc.

Links:

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/152140601611/we-often-dream-about-people-from-whom-we-receive

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/151005416966/cg-jung-termed-the-period-between-1912-and-1918

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/155167008726/self-taught-photographer-clarence-john-laughlin

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/155221515516/the-surreal-spiritual-and-thought-provoking

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/159260635196/william-hope-1863-1933-was-one-of-the

http://konmarkimageswords.tumblr.com/post/153122569656/in-the-early-days-of-photography-many-believed