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Chthonic Passage by Adam Gabriel Winnie

“Probing the subterranean world within, Chthonic Passage, focuses on the underworld descent that occurs during the initial phase of shamanic initiations. The passage of thresholds, trials, encounters, and symbolic death, all find their place in the monomyth. This exhibition explores a quest into the cave of the mind through a combination of archetypal symbolism and uncanny aesthetics. My works draw from narrative themes found in ancient mythologies in which journeys of a transformative nature confront the unknown within the depths of the psyche. Initiating and integrating the polarities within us, between the oppositions of the Dionysian and Apollonian, instinct and intellect, emotion and reason, maybe it’s possible to glimpse a reflection of ourselves.”