Meeting the Pictures Inside

By River Stormcaller

I found a talk that named something I have been doing with a lens for years without knowing it had a name. Carl Jung called it active imagination: sit still, let the inner pictures rise, and meet them like old friends instead of arguing with them. Meeting instead of arguing ... that is the part I have been dodging, since I would rather watch a feeling through a viewfinder than sit still with it. This one made me want to put the camera down and let the picture come from the inside for once.