Ann McCoy
THE ALCHEMICAL RUBEDO
Opening reception:
October 12, 2007 6:30-8pm
Through November 5

The images in Ann McCoy's works come from dreams, a process known as incubation in the Greek world. Incubation, a "sleeping in", was used to record dreams for therapeutic and prophetic ends.   For McCoy, dreams represent a philogenetically older mode of thought linked to nature and very much needed as a counterbalance in our "rational", scientific world.  The unconscious is no mere repository of the past, but contains the seeds of future healing.   Dreams are letters from the gods and the animal spirits.   For McCoy, dreams are linked to an inner transformation process described in alchemical symbolism.   The Alchemical Great Work, and the personal dream life fuse, as part of the path to the realization of the Self.    www.annmccoy.com