Anima House installation at MACLA Center for the Latino Arts, San Jose, 2000.  Installation is entered through open door, and exited through panels on right.

approximate dimensions:
20 feet deep X 16 feet wide X 15 feet high

Mixed media materials included:
astroturf, fur, digital images, tubing, wood structure, nylon, plumbing materials, lizards, fishing bait, toy giraffes, horses and a lion, multiple toy animals installed throughout gallery, bench, looking glass, and more.

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images visible in ceiling of walkway

       

 

 

artists statement

The shadow is a tight passage,
a narrow door,
whose painful constriction no one is spared
who goes
down to the deep well.

But one must learn to know oneself
in order to know who one is.

For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough,
a boundless expanse
full of unprecedented uncertainty,
with apparently no inside and no outside,
no above and no below,
no here and no there,
no mine and no thine,
no good and no bad.

It is the world of water,
where all life floats
in suspension;
where the realm of the sympathetic system,
the soul of everything living begins;
where I am indivisibly this and that,
where I experience the other in myself
and the other - than - myself
experiences me.

- Carl Jung