Opening Night: Megan Jones – Confronting the Shadow

This series investigates the effect of our actions on society and the environment, when we do not take sufficient responsibility for our behaviour. These effects are caused by the shadows which lie within us, and by extension, on the world.

First modernism and then post-modernism have failed contemporary society, tending to produce a descent into fundamentalism, superstition and aggression in many parts of the world.

We have become accustomed to intrusive surveillance through CCTV, and the monitoring of social media, and in our embrace of electronic devices we collude in our own control.

Avoiding responsibility, we deny that we are complicit in the increasing breakdown of social norms of civility, sharing, tolerance, and of environmental protections.

Confronting the shadow is an active exploration of the dark side, to find the light; a way to try to understand what life is about; a means to conquer darkness, and then to integrate it with the light.