Influences: Metanoia Influences

For Metanoia, The Creature's Cake, and Puppet Play I was interested in exploring these subjects.

Short notes are below:

Silent cinema and use of body expressions and costume as a language to communicate ideas.

Metanoia is Greek in origin and means to change one's mind, a reorientation, or a transformation of outlook.

It is a sense of embracing one's thoughts beyond its present limitations or thought patterns.

Carl Jung's Psychology - metanoia indicates a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn into a more adaptive form.

Empiricism - theory of knowledge arises from experience (17th century John Locke's Tabula Rasa (born with a blank tablet or slate)).

Empedocles - the roots of all existence is based on the four fundamental elements (earth, air, fire, and water). The elements collide and separate in love and strife in a cosmic force.

Jacques Lacan - The Mirror Stage (the ego is dependent upon external objects)

Persephone - Greek mythology