So one of the daily delights of working at the McColl Center studios is being part of an urban environment again. Granted, Charlotte NC is no Tokyo, but it is a city of about a million people in the greater metropolitan area, and it has an eclectic mix of people and ideas floating around that make for rich stimulus. Take for example, a local small business located next to the main studio building, Jung's Laundry and Cleaning Service. I park beside it every day and I can actually see the awesome old-school neon sign light up every night out my studio windows.
It occurred to me after about my first week working in my studio that I was toiling under the watchful eye of the Jungian Laundromat, either a memorial to the great psychotherapist and psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, or possibly a side business that he himself started in late retirement.
It simply seems too much of a coincidence that this confluence of associations should be right out my studio window, lighting up (literally) like a neon sign every time the sun goes down. Clearly, this is a sign that I need to delve deeper into universal archetypes and the collective unconscious in my work...
And honestly, what's not to love about this busted, ancient shirt sign with flashing bulbs on the side of the building!
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