11.7 x 16.5 inches, Acrylics and colour pencils, 2025

"Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light."
[C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition]
After I completed the Shadow - Jung workshop, I felt a deep calm, as if my whole body sank into the ground, feeling both connected and weightless. My shadow has always been with me; it belongs to me. I know I will die one day, yet I have never wanted to die—I only wanted to have truly existed. I smell the soil on the plant and place it on my tummy. I feel as if I am reborn. This is my eudaimonia.