In the main painting, called ‘’The hero’s journey’’, a hand is represented in the foreground in a surrealistic style. Darkness is presented in the paintings as the phenomenon described by the psychiatrist Carl Jung as collective unconscious, which brings up the reality of the unknown hiding behind a door, behind ourselves, or in our inside, relevant to all as human beings.
He describes this concept in myths as the main character is driven to live an adventure that will change him, and bring a certain truth to his life for him to grow and return to the starting point with a teaching, parallel to Plato’s metaphor in the allegory of the cave.
In the first sketches, a hand is displayed performing an action of opening or breaking, in representation of the change of circumstances, and the acceptance of the call for the adventure described by J. In the paintings, this fight with our own self is represented by the image of the hand, a part of our body that we use to work, to create, to reach, to hold on, as the depiction of humans’ strength. Is the cycle that man lives in to grow in body and mind until death. This pattern could be seen from far as a change that undergoes a person in life, in which he changes by circumstances and achieves a higher state of knowledge after, transforming the end of this in the next beginning for a different change. The pattern he extracts from stories written by the most ancient recovered works to the most recent, explains the stages that the protagonist goes through until the end. Campbell, an American mythologist and writer of the past century, in his works around the concept that’s been alive in men’s mind and in the necessity to write all through humanity’s history, as he calls monomyth. This analysis was first given and fully explained by J. We all dive into hundreds of different stories with a meaning that is brought to us by the protagonist, who lives an adventure and returns with the learning at the end (in a more complicated or simple way for the viewer or reader’s understanding). Indeed, is a concept that is being constantly used in our era, since the creation and recreation of stories happening to a heroic character have been boosted up by the raise of cinema and the world wide spreading of literature works.
However, in reality, we consider a hero someone very far from being magical, as long as he keeps the view of life through the best of values and in benefit of humanity and nature. Being a hero is something that, nowadays, hides behind an image of superiority and fictional power given to a character that bases his life in good values.
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