dreamscape, collective unconscious, symbols, soul, ancient motifs
Description:
Part of the Ancestral Legacy series, the works emerge from the depths of the unconscious, where personal experience merges with inherited memory. They speak of what is passed down silently: archetypal knowledge, instinct, and symbolic forms that persist beyond individual lives. The imagery remains unstable and unresolved, offering only fleeting moments of clarity while resisting fixed meaning and clear narration.
Rooted in Jungian thought, the paintings suggest the unconscious as a shared human inheritance: a layered terrain shaped by ancestral experience and collective memory. What surfaces does so imperfectly, as residue rather than revelation. Forms drift, dissolve, and recombine, pointing toward truths that cannot be fully articulated.
These fragments do not offer answers. They hold what remains: echoes of an ancient inner world that continues to shape perception, emotion, and being, long after its origins have been forgotten.
Inherited Memories I.
Szilvia Ponyiczki Share on FacebookYear: 2026
Size: 114x172 cm
Technique: acrylics and charcoal on canvas
Price: n.a.
Photographer: Ponyiczki