You may be lonely, but you are never alone. Inside each of us is a second self, another being. The great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, named this gidden part of us the Shadow. The Shadow is an archetype – a universal motif or image built into all human beings. You can no more get rid of this inner Shadow than you can avoid casting an outer shadow when you’re in sunlight.

For most of us, that creates a problem, because the Shadow appears as the sum total of the weakest, most flawed, inferior, or even disgusting parts of yourself. It’s everything you don’t want to be, but fear that you are. It doesn’t matter how rich, beautiful or famous you are; as long as your fear that people can see your Shadow, you will be insecure.

SHADOW SELF EP is an exploration of those areas of our psyche we are avoiding. It’s a courageous answer to the calling of the soul to know thyself, and knowing thyself can only be done by facing the things we don’t want to face about ourselves. It is in the inner work that lies magic we all are looking for.

Magnum Opus is The Great Work in an alchemical term, used to describe a single greatest work of an artist, writer, or a composer. In psychological terms, Magnum Opus can be used to describe the hardest challenge every person has in front of them in their lives – to face their fears and overcome them.

A great representation of the unknow, the darkness and the shadow, in my opinion, is the ocean and its depths. Humans only have discovered 5% of the vast ocean depths. We don’t know what awaits us to find in the total darkness of the deep sea. “Warper” is a representation of depths of unexplored unconscious mind, through the the images of deep sea creatures, so different to ones we know from the visible land. In the world of total darkness these creatures adapted to survive and thrive. Scary and fascinating at the same time, they show us incredible designs of nature. Would you dive 2km+ deep to see those creatures with your own eyes, or you’d be devoured by thalassophobia?

For this release I created 4 music videos to express the theme idea with more depth. You can find them on my YouTube profile @purrppl and on my website purrppl.work/portfolio-item/shadow-self-ep/