NANCY RUBYN // SHADOW WORK
ABOUT THIS PAINTING
Subtitle: The Moment I Cut my Wings and stopped flying Because Other People Were Too Afraid of Leaving the Safe Confines of their Own Small Worlds in order to Go with Me to the Places they’ve Never Seen.
Oil painting with layers of black, blue and red mixed with selenite powder. It results from a process of surrender and transformation, a catalyst that challenged the artist’s views about liminal spaces, anger and betrayal — lost and hidden parts of the Self.
The Angel is not a Devil (she has been demonized).
DETAILS AND MEASUREMENTS
OIL ON CANVAS, FRANKINCENSE OIL, SELENITE POWDER
100 X 80 cm
2023
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ABOUT THIS PAINTING
Subtitle: The Moment I Cut my Wings and stopped flying Because Other People Were Too Afraid of Leaving the Safe Confines of their Own Small Worlds in order to Go with Me to the Places they’ve Never Seen.
Oil painting with layers of black, blue and red mixed with selenite powder. It results from a process of surrender and transformation, a catalyst that challenged the artist’s views about liminal spaces, anger and betrayal — lost and hidden parts of the Self.
The Angel is not a Devil (she has been demonized).
DETAILS AND MEASUREMENTS
OIL ON CANVAS, FRANKINCENSE OIL, SELENITE POWDER
100 X 80 cm
2023
Free worldwide shipping is included in all of our artworks.
Check our Terms of Service —ª All sales are final.
WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
✨ We accept Bitcoin.
Click here to purchase this piece using secure crypto checkout via Coinbase Commerce.
ABOUT THIS PAINTING
Subtitle: The Moment I Cut my Wings and stopped flying Because Other People Were Too Afraid of Leaving the Safe Confines of their Own Small Worlds in order to Go with Me to the Places they’ve Never Seen.
Oil painting with layers of black, blue and red mixed with selenite powder. It results from a process of surrender and transformation, a catalyst that challenged the artist’s views about liminal spaces, anger and betrayal — lost and hidden parts of the Self.
The Angel is not a Devil (she has been demonized).
DETAILS AND MEASUREMENTS
OIL ON CANVAS, FRANKINCENSE OIL, SELENITE POWDER
100 X 80 cm
2023
Free worldwide shipping is included in all of our artworks.
Check our Terms of Service —ª All sales are final.
WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
✨ We accept Bitcoin.
Click here to purchase this piece using secure crypto checkout via Coinbase Commerce.
ARTISTS COMMENTIn Jungian’s psychic model there are 5 main archetypes: The Persona (public personality), the Shadow (the unconscious), The Anima/Animus (relational self), The Mana archetype (ideal/magical self), and the Self archetype, which is the archetype of wholeness. This painting is gross and gruesome, it is built through multiple layers of turpentine and oil painting to make it raw and visceral. There are anatomical elements within it; a liver and a kidney, and a figure locked in conflict battling both an external force and itself.
During the making I experienced cathartic moments where a lot of repressed material from my psyche came up to light to be witnessed, unifying concepts and messages that helped me understand different rooms of my own experience. Normally I do not plan on concepts, such as, ‘I am going to make a painting of my shadows and I will write ‘Self’ as one of Jung’s archetypes’, but I simply follow the impulses of my own libido which later make sense. 
