In” Totems “, the artist becomes a mirror of the unconscious - a place where symbols speak and instincts take shape. Carl Jung wrote that totems are not relics of primitive religion, but living expressions of the archetypal instincts buried in every human being. They are the animal within, the fragment of nature that endures in the architecture of the soul. Each image in this series is a dialogue between body and symbol. Masks, gestures, and textures become the vocabulary of the psyche - half ritual, half revelation. The figures do not represent individuals; they embody forces that inhabit us all: fear, desire, protection, surrender.
The totems themselves are built by hand, from antique agricultural tools — rusted blades, wooden handles, and fragments of forgotten labor. These materials carry the memory of the land, the rhythm of human survival, and the physical trace of instinct. They transform work into worship, function into myth.
Through these staged, black-and-white visions, Totem searches for the thin line between consciousness and instinct - between the human and the animal, the sacred and the absurd. The result is not mythology revived, but mythology remembered - reframed within the modern psyche.
The totems themselves are built by hand, from antique agricultural tools — rusted blades, wooden handles, and fragments of forgotten labor. These materials carry the memory of the land, the rhythm of human survival, and the physical trace of instinct. They transform work into worship, function into myth.
Through these staged, black-and-white visions, Totem searches for the thin line between consciousness and instinct - between the human and the animal, the sacred and the absurd. The result is not mythology revived, but mythology remembered - reframed within the modern psyche.
