Through my master's thesis entitled Story as Medicine: Dark Witch, White Shaman, I discuss archetypes according to Jung with an emphasis on the archetype of the wild woman, as well as the process of transformation and embodiment through body movement and dance: from a wounded woman to a healing woman. The project presents itself as a video essay of the artist bordering on a documentary or an experimental short film. It contains archival material, video diaries recorded between March 2016 and March 2018, and two short gif-segments of photos created with the help of artificial intelligence (ai-image-generator).
When we talk about story as medicine, we talk about softening the scar tissue left behind by the consequences of trauma. We talk about archetypes for healing old wounds, about the process of creating a new spiritual visualization that taps into the restoration of the old skills of the Life/Death/Life cycle – as Clarissa Pinkola Estés likes to call it – through which the soul becomes really visible, tangible and truly alive.
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