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Leanne Bock
La Sombra y Las Aguas Subterráneas (The Shadow and Subterranean Waters) is a personal project of writing, dream analysis, ritual and visual art, an exploration that lived with me and within me for over a year. It was a tactile channel, facilitating a period of major transformation and discovery by exploring symbols of the subconscious, diving into deep psychology, biological interconnection, integrating death, loss and accessing vulnerable corners of the psyche by stream-of-consciousness making of childlike cutouts.

I much prefer these cutouts spread on a workspace under natural light than up on a wall, cut off from the context of reality. Like they’re not meant to be elevated; they’re supposed to stay humble, ephemeral, and ‘in progress’ like the paper-thin moments of daily life piling up, floating in and out and sometimes cutting, when we least expect it

This series has been a process of shifting shadow and light, diving into the symbols of the subconscious and exposing the flimsy facade of material reality.


                

Related texts (in spanish and english)

Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro (2015) – Gloria Anzaldúa
Man and His Symbols (1964) – Carl Jung
Mythologies (1957) – Roland Barthes
Nuestra parte de noche (2019) – Mariana Enriquez
El puente donde habitan las mariposas (2025) – Nazareth Castellanos
Las dioses de cada mujer (2023) – Jean Shinoda Bolen
Un lugar soleado para gente sombría (2024) – Mariana Enriquez
Matisse Cut-outs (2022) – Gilles Néret, Xavier-Gilles Néret
Los venenos (1956) – Julio Cortázar


Un agradecimiento especial a Fer, mi terapeuta transpersonal de la Ciudad de México, quien me ha acompañado con inteligencia integral, practicidad, creatividad y calidez durante las últimas etapas de la enfermedad de mi amada mamá, y tras su pérdida en la primavera de 2025.








 
 
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