Jason Yung is a Brooklyn-based Canadian new media artist working primarily in light. Yung approaches light art from the standpoint of a painter; his work re-interprets the age-old visual logic of the painter through the 21st medium of LED light, and the ability to shape light through programming and actuation. To this end, Yung established Bushwick Lightbox, a platform to showcase his light art to the public through pop-up street shows. Art is Yung’s second career. Previously, he was a Canadian diplomat. Yung has strong interests in psychology, philosophy and spirituality. Yung graduated from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2019.
“The production of the lapis (Philosopher’s stone) was the goal of alchemy in general. Dorn was a significant exception, because for him this denoted only the completion of the second stage of conjunction. In this he agrees with psychological experience. For us the representation of the idea of the self in actual and visible form is a mere rite d’entrée, as it were a propaedeutic action and mere anticipation of its realization. The existence of a sense of inner security by no means proves that the product will be stable enough to withstand the disturbing or hostile influences of the environment. The adept had to experience again and again how unfavourable circumstances or a technical blunder or—as it seemed to him—some devilish accident hindered the completion of his work, so that he was forced to start all over again from the very beginning. Anyone who submits his sense of inner security to analogous psychic tests will have similar experiences. More than once everything he has built will fall to pieces under the impact of reality, and he must not let this discourage him from examining, again and again, where it is that his attitude is still defective, and what are the blind spots in his psychic field of vision. Just as a lapis Philosophorum, with its miraculous powers, was never produced, so psychic wholeness will never be attained empirically, as consciousness is too narrow and too one-sided to comprehend the full inventory of the psyche. Always we shall have to begin again from the beginning. From ancient times the adept knew that he was concerned with the “res simplex,” (simple nature) and the modern man too will find by experience that the work does not prosper without the greatest simplicity. But simple things are always the most difficult. The One and Simple is what Dorn called the unus mundus, This “one world” was the res simplex. For him the third and highest degree of conjunction was the union of the whole man with the unus mundus.”
-Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis (1970)
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