This room is where "soup and discussion night" takes place. Members of the APSWNY meet here once a month, both ametur and professionals apply Jungian theory to current issues as they enjoy a homemade exotic soup.

dim. vary: trees, golden thread

On the ceiling above a formal dining table a multitude of trees are planted. At the base of each tree is silver thread forming a root-like rhizoid structure. The trees hang down ominously like stalactites transfroming the room into a cave. As each tree is magically connected to its neighbor, so too are we, according to Jung's theory of The Collective Unconscious.

14 x 20"; inkwask, graphite

In one of his more controversial and notorious theories, Jung asserted that there was little distinction between men and women apart from physical features, and that even in their emotional composition the sexes were more similar than different. Also shown in the 'soup and discussion room', "The Crown" (above) was displayed. On a canvas of stretched silk prepared with rabbit skin glue, there the image of a crown loosely drawn in graphite is just visable. The ink wash stain that fills it in appears unambiguously phallic. The result is an image that juxtapozes a sterotypical symbol of masculinity with an iconic trope of femminity.