Description
A visual interpretation of a psychological concept of the inner child, sometimes identified with the ‘inner artist’ – the instinct to play and a source of creative energy. It is a sublimation of the search for primal, childlike creative expression, hidden beneath layers of experiences which, over the course of a lifetime, have given it new forms – or distortions, resulting from painful experiences. A group of figures take part in a bloody ritual. It is a metaphor for the symbolic sacrifice of certain aspects of the personality, in order to allow the emergence of a captivating, yet at the same time predatory aspect of the creative ‘self’. In the top right-hand corner there is a caption in Polish: ‘Wouldn’t you like to hear what I have to say about your mother? Instead of milk, she fed you blood.’
