White essences II.

The approach to vulnerability to me is based on the simple thing, that I don’t like and can’t even talk about the pain and feelings associated with it, until I’ve worked it out on my own, and there’s some kind of solution or healing to the wounds, that is mostly based on my own solutions. I’m trying to develop a practice of what medications I have, some kind of spiritual balm. What “white essences” can I produce that cover most of the colors and types of my pain. One of the defining elements of these for me is water. Which obscures, silks, dissolves, heals everything… 

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Each capsule contains a photo, an essence. I store them in antique medicine bottles, indicating what they were intended for in practice. I never know ehen I might need them. When I feel the need to does myself with a little sunshine, the icy waves of the Lake Balaton or the colorful and shimmering bliss of the beach. Making the capsules was itself a healing process, meditative and reflective. Not only was it a way to slow down, but to really experience again the memories and warmth I feel when I am surrounded by these elements, colours and places. 

Photographs in small capsules, contained in antique medicine glasses.