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Kristine Poole

Play and creativity go together hand-in-hand like, well, me and Colin. However, amidst deadline crunches, working with clients, creative problem solving challenges, material disasters and, dare we admit, at times over-the-top, self-imposed pressures to continually bring more to the party, sometimes getting through a piece can feel more like a slog than the expressive rapture that beckoned us into the creative arts in the first place. As our schedules become more and more intense, it's…

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Eranos and the Archetype Database

Lauren Panepinto

July 10, 2025 - Last month I did a long post about how to not rely on Google images to do your image research — for a lot of reasons, including originality, accuracy, and avoiding AI sludge filling up search engines. The short version of the post is to start using better/vetted databases. And one I forgot to add is worth a whole post in itself, for the kind of things we do in fantastic art. Let me introduce you to the Eranos Archive. The Eranos Foundation was an archive started by a student/follower of Carl Jung, who I've talked about many times here. His body of work was the human subconscious and unconscious, and the archetypes that recur in human art, religion, dreams, and stories over and over again. I've talked about both him and Joseph Campbell, who…

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